STATISTICS: Weekly volume of transactions in PIS at KASE - $391.4 th

/IRBIS, June 5, 00/ - During the twenty third business week of current year (May 29 - June 4) 7 deals were made for a total of $391.4 th. in private issue securities (PIS) trade sector of Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE), which is 9.5 times lower than that of pervious week ($41.2 th.). During the week the number of deals decreased 7 times. Significant decrease in the number of deals was caused by the end of initial offering of OJSC "Astana-finance" common inscribed shares among the population. In terms of securities the volume decreased to 20,234 shares, whereas in last week it equaled 41,002 shares. The deals were made in 4 instruments. Their proportion in weekly turnover of PIS reached (in descending order): - common shares of JSC "AZ Etalon" (ETLN, "Non-listed securities" sector, level 2) - 83.8%; - preferred shares of JSC "Ulbinskii metallurgicheskii zavod"(ULBAp, "Non- listed securities" sector, level 2) - 8.6%; - common shares of OJSC "Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan" (HSBK, official list of securities, category "A",) - 7.5%; - common inscribed shares of OJSC "Ontustikmunaigas"(ONGZ, "Non- listed securities" sector, level 2) - 0.1%. Six 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. One deal was made using counter auction mode (main mode of KASE).