Investment attractiveness of financial instruments at KASE from March 30 through April 5

/IRBIS, Apr.6, 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 30 through April 5. 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 ------------- -------- -------------- ---------------- ------------------ МЕККАМ, notes KZT *16.35 (16.76) 587.4 (724.3) 4,137.9 (5,107.5) KOMBb USD 12.81 (13.21) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KKGBb USD 12.37 (12.36) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) АVМЕКАМ USD 11.51 (10.67) 3.7 (522.1) 26.1 (3,681.3) BTAS USD 11.37 (12.21) 0 (22.4) 0 (158.1) Euronotes-3 USD 10.93 (10.94) 621.6 (759.7) 4,379.0 (5,356.9) Euronotes-2 USD 10.22 (9.83) 94.3 (308.8) 664.4 (2,177.6) MEKAVM, MGU USD *8.03 (9.12) 347.4 (334.5) 2,447.3 (2,358.8) KZT (SS repo) KZT *10.54 (9.54) 643.4 (1 395.3) 4,532.2 (9,838.2) ------------- -------- -------------- ---------------- ------------------ Notes: Yield of BTAS was calculated for 5 days by ask quotations; for KKGBb and KOMBb - as average for bid quotations. Tenge devaluation rate is estimated in the week by a trend of 0.38% 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.