STATISTICS: Weekly volume of transactions in PIS at KASE - $41.2 th

/IRBIS, May 29, 00/ - During the twenty second business week of current year (May 22 - 26) 48 deals were made for a total of $41.2 th. in private issue securities (PIS) trade sector of Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE), which is lower than that of pervious week ($313.9 th.) by 86.9%. During the week the number of deals grew 3 times. Growth in the volume of the deals, while the turnover was declining, was caused by the initial offering auction of OJSC "Astana-finance" shares amount the population. In terms of securities the volume decreased to 41,002 shares, whereas in last week it equaled 103,065 shares. The deals were made in 9 instruments. Their proportion in weekly turnover of PIS reached (in descending order): - preferred shares of OJSC "Aliuminii Kazakhstana" (ALKZp, official list of securities, category "B") - 41.6%; - preferred shares of OJSC "Mangistaumunaigas"(MMGZp, official list of securities, category "B") - 38.5%; - coupon bonds of OJSC "Komirbank" (KOMBb, official list of securities, category "A") - 9.5%; - common inscribed shares of OJSC "Astana-finance" (ASFI, official list of securities, category "B", initial offering among the population) - 9.3%; - preferred shares of OJSC "Jairemskii GOK" (JGOKp, non-listed companies, category 2) - 1.4%; - common shares of OJSC "Bailanys" (BAIL, non-listed companies, category 2) - 0.002%; - common shares of OJSC "KazTransGas" (KZTG, non-listed companies, category 2) - 0.002%; - common shares of OJSC "Aktiubneftsvyaz" (AKNS, non-listed companies, category 2) - 0.0003%; - common shares of OJSC "Kaspii Munai Bailanys"(KMUB, non-listed companies, category 2) - 0.0003%; Seven deals of the last week were direct, that means they were made by the brokers in the Quotation system of KASE, which excludes automatic satisfaction of bids in counter auction mode. 41 deals were made using counter auction mode (main mode of KASE).