Investment attractiveness of financial instruments at KASE from July 6 to 12

/IRBIS, July 13, 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 July 6 to 12. 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 *13.19 (12.47) 805.9 (277.9) 5,643.8 (1,944.6) KZT (repo SS) KZT *5.87 (6.20) 3,247.7 (7,850.7) 22,744.1 (54,930.8) ALKSb USD 15.50 (16.64) 2.9 (14.5) 20.5 (101.4) KOMBb USD 13.93 (14.46) 0 (40.1) 0 (280.3) HSBKb USD 12.78 (12.78) 14.0 (221.3) 97.9 (1,548.5) KZT (repo PIS) USD *11.92 ( -) 1.0 ( 0) 7.0 ( 0) TMJLb USD 11.49 ( -) 94.6 ( 0) 13,503.2 ( 0) KZOLb USD 11.35 (11.35) 0 (63.5) 0 (444.0) Euronotes-3 USD 10.64 (10.57) 1,099.4 (440.0) 7,699.6 (3,078.8) Euronotes-4 USD 10.41 (10.55) 68.4 (165.9) 479.2 (1,160.5) KKGBb USD 10.22 (12.86) 0 (13.0) 0 (90.7) MEKAVM USD *8.34 (7.51) 146.0 (527.3) 1,022.7 (3,689.3) ------------- -------- -------------- ------------------ ------------------- Notes: yield of ALKSb, HSBKb, TMJLb is calculated as average of the deals, including initial offering; for KKGBb, KOMBb, KZOLb - as average of offer quotations. In this week tenge devaluation rate is estimated at weighted average rate of the main session of KASE by a trend of negative 10.26% APR (tenge revalued against the dollar). 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.