In January–April 2015 volume of trades on KASE increased 2.7 times and made up KZT38.0 trln ($205.9 bn)

/KASE, May 6, 15/ – In January–April 2015 the volume of trades on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) in all market sectors made up KZT38,060.8 bn (equivalent of USD205,921.1 mln) and increased against the similar 2014 period 2.7 times (2.5 % in dollar terms). In comparison with the previous four-month period (September–December 2014) the trade volume increased by 88.3 % (85.0 % in dollar terms). The table below shows the trades volume (calculated by amounts raised) in the first four months of 2015 by market sector and comparative data of the same period of 2014. -------------------------------------------- ----------------- ------------------ I–IV, 2015 I–IV, 2014 Trend ---------------- --------------- ---------------- Market trades struc- trades struc- measuring in % sector volume ture, % volume ture, % currency --------------------------- -------- ------- - ------- ------- - --------- ------ bn KZT --------------------------- -------- ------- - ------- ------- - --------- ------ Foreign currency 29054.2 76.3 10359.8 73.6 +18694.4 +180.5 including: spot-market 3617.7 9.5 5003.4 35.5 -1385.8 -27.7 swap-market 25436.5 66.8 5356.4 38.0 +20080.2 +374.9 Kazakhstan GS 290.0 0.8 234.1 1.7 +55.9 +23.9 including: primary market 289.1 0.8 212.6 1.5 +76.5 +36.0 secondary market 1.0 <0.1 21.5 0.2 -20.5 -95.5 Shares 19.3 0.1 15.9 0.1 129.5 including: "nego" repo on GS 45278.6 22.0 19325.8 23.8 +25952.8 +134.3 autorepo on GS 1.9 <0.1 6.3 <0.1 -4.4 -70.0 "nego" repo on CS 52.9 <0.1 418.6 0.5 -365.8 -87.4 Investment funds securities 0 0 0.1 <0.1 -<0.1 -100.0 IFO bonds 0 0 0.7 <0.1 -<0.7 -100.0 Futures 0 0 7.0 <0.1 -7.0 -100.0 --------------------------- -------- ------- - ------- ------- - --------- ------ Total trades volume 205921.1 100.0 81366.8 100.0 +124554.4 +153.1 -------------------------------------------- ----------------- ------------------ Notes to table: GS – government serial securities; UIT – Unit Investment Fund, CS – corporate serial securities; corporate debt CS – corporate serial debt securities; "nego" repo – repo transactions carried out by "direct" method (with conclusion of direct opening and closing repo deals); auto repo – repo transactions carried out automatically; 'n/t' – no trade held. Trade volume is calculated on all executed exchange deals, concluded by any possible KASE trade method. Information on notes and futures is not provided due to absence of deals in such instruments in the compared periods. [2015-05-06]