Investment attractiveness of financial instruments at KASE from March 23 through 29

/IRBIS, March 30, 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) from March 23 through 29. In parentheses - figures of previous period. Instruments are given in descending order based on their attractiveness. Financial Volume of deals, Volume of deals, instrument Currency Yield, % APR mln KZT mln USD ------------- --------- -------------- ------------------- ------------------- KOMBb USD 13.21 (12.99) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KKGBb USD 12.36 (12.66) 0 (13.4) 0 (94.4) BTAS USD 12.21 (12.73) 22.4 ( 0) 158.1 ( 0) Euronotes-3 USD 10.94 (10.95) 759.7 (593.4) 5,356.9 (4,191.4) АVМЕКАМ USD 10.67 (11.09) 522.1 (11.2) 3,681.3 (79.1) Euronotes-2 USD 9.83 (9.90) 308.8 (409.1) 2,177.6 (2,889.6) MEKAVM, MGU USD *9.12 (9.05) 334.5 (359.6) 2,358.8 (2,540.0) МЕККАМ, notes KZT *16.76 (15.20) 724.3 (357.5) 5,107.5 (2,525.2) KZT (SS repo) KZT *9.54 (19.56) 1,395.3 (1,606.0) 26,888.3 (11,343.8) ------------- --------- -------------- ------------------- ------------------- Notes: Yield of BTAS was calculated for 5 days by ask quotations; yield of KKGBb - bid quotations (by deals); KOMBb - as average for bid quotations. Tenge devaluation rate is estimated in the week by a trend of 12.22% APR. 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.