Investment attractiveness of financial instruments at KASE from March 16 through 22

/IRBIS, March 24, 00/ - Following is the table that allows to compare investment attractiveness of the financial instruments, which were regularly traded or quoted at Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) during observed period. In parentheses - figures of previous period. Instruments are given in descending order based on their attractiveness. Investment attractiveness of financial instruments of the Exchange from March 16 through 22 Financial Currency Yield, % APR Volume of deals, Volume of deals, instrument mln KZT mln USD ------------- -------- ------------- ----------------- ------------------ KZT (SS repo) KZT *19.56 (8.65) 1,606.0 (1,005.8) 11,343.8 (7,115.3) МЕККАМ, notes KZT *15.20 (15.47) 357.5 (926.8) 2,525.2 (6,556.4) KOMBb USD 12.99 (13.75) 0 (51.1) 0 (361.7) BTAS USD 12.73 (12.26) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KKGBb USD 12.66 (12.21) 13.4 ( 0) 94.4 ( 0) АVМЕКАМ USD 11.09 (11.11) 11.2 (229.0) 79.1 (1,620.0) Euronotes-3 USD 10.95 (10.97) 593.4 (754.7) 4,191.4 (5,338.9) Euronotes-2 USD 9.90 (9.76) 409.1 (28.5) 2 889.6 (201.6) MEKAVM, MGU USD *9.05 (8.92) 359.6 (377.6) 2 540.0 (2 671.2) ------------- -------- ------------- ----------------- ------------------ Notes: Yield of BTAS was calculated for 5 days by ask quotations; yield of KKGBb - by deals (bid quotations); KOMBb - as average for bid quotations (by deals). The yields, shown here, do not incorporate overhead expenses that are inevitable when conducting operations and fixing profits (commission and tax collections, membership fees etc). Marked by a star are the instruments with less than a year circulation term. Weighted average effective yields are given for them. Average tenge devaluation rate is estimated in the week by a trend of negative 2.5% APR (tenge revalued against dollar).