Investment attractiveness of financial instruments at KASE from July 13 to 19

/IRBIS, July 20, 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 13 to 19. 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 ------------- -------- -------------- ---------------- ------------------ ALKSb USD 15.26 (15.50) 0 (2.9) 0 (20.5) KOMBb USD 14.50 (13.93) 27.6 ( 0) 191.8 ( 0) MEKKAM,notes KZT *12.46 (13.19) 629.9 (805.9) 4,413.4 (5,643.8) HSBKb USD 12.00 (12.78) 0 (14.0) 0 (97.9) TMJLb USD 11.49 (11.49) 509.5 (94.6) 3,569.9(13,503.2) KZOLb USD 11.42 (11.35) 48.7 ( 0) 341.4 ( 0) Euronotes-3 USD 10.52 (10.64) 187.2 (1,099.4) 1,311.8 (7,699.6) KKGBb USD 10.23 (10.22) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) Euronotes-4 USD 10.19 (10.41) 53.8 (68.4) 377.1 (479.2) Euronotes -2 USD 9.58 (10.64) 529.0 (1,099.4) 3,706.4 (7,699.6) MEKAVM USD *9.36 (8.34) 97.5 (146.0) 683.1 (1,022.7) KZT (SS repo) KZT *7.06 (5.87) 3,500.2(3,247.7) 24,523.2(22,744.1) ------------- -------- -------------- ---------------- ------------------ Notes: yield of KOMBb, KZOLb, TMJLb is calculated as average of the deals; for ALKSb, HSBKb, KKGBb - 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 1.09% 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.