Investment attractiveness of financial instruments at KASE from April 20 through 26

/IRBIS, Apr.27, 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 April 20 through 26. 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 ------------- -------- -------------- ----------------- ------------------- MEKKAM, notes KZT *15.53 (15.33) 364.5 (776.1) 2 565.9 (5 458.5) ALKSb USD 15.00 ( -) 48.1 ( 0) 338.4 ( 0) KZT (SS repo) KZT *7.44 (7.24) 3 519.0 (2 282.8) 24 773.0 (16 054.7) KOMBb USD 13.87 (13.85) 46.2 (4.4) 324.6 (30.9) KKGBb USD 12.33 (12.38) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) BTAS USD 11.29 (12.12) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) Euronotes-3 USD 11.12 (11.21) 476.5 (625.1) 3 354.3 (4 396.2) MEKAVM USD *9.32 (9.21) 776.2 (841.5) 5 463.9 (5 918.0) KZT (SS repo) USD *6.18 (7.79) 53.0 (601.2) 373.1 (4 228.1) ------------- -------- -------------- ----------------- ------------------- Notes: Yield of BTAS calculated for 5 days on the base of ask quotations; for KKGBb - as average of bid quotations; for KOMBb and ALKSb- as weighted average of deals. On this week, devaluation rate of tenge estimated on the basis of weighted average rate of prime KASE session equals to (-) 6.44% APR (revaluation of tenge). 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). The instruments marked by a star are those with maturity less than a year. Weighted average effective yields are given for them.