Investment attractiveness of financial instruments at KASE from July 27 to August 02

/IRBIS, Aug. 02, 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 27 to August 02. 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 15.22 (15.24) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) MEKKAM, notes KZT *7.77 (12.11) 3,057.1 (973.7) 21,432.1 (6,822.9) KOMBb USD 13.50 (13.66) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) GS repos KZT *6.86 (5.32) 6,990.1 (2,310.6) 49,005.1 (16,191.0) HSBKb USD 12.74 (12.14) 50.2 ( 0) 351.7 ( 0) KZOLb USD 11.75 (11.40) 18.6 (78.8) 130.1 (551.9) TMJLb USD 11.30 (11.41) 71.1 (75.1) 498.2 (525.8) KKGBb USD 10.23 (10.23) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) Euronotes-4 USD 10.06 (10.18) 636.3 (292.8) 4,461.0 (2,051.6) Euronotes-2 USD 9.83 (9.88) 38.7 (17.2) 271.0 (120.2) Euronotes-3 USD 9.81 (9.94) 573.8 (91.7) 4,023.0 (642.8) Securities repos USD *8.50 (11.50) 76.6 (20.0) 536.9 (140.2) MEKAVM USD *4.54 (9.25) 177.8 (174.4) 1,246.2 (1,122.0) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notes: yield of HSBKb, KZOLb, TMJLb is calculated as average of the deals; for ALKSb, KKGBb, KOMBb - 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 negative trend of 6.56% 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.