Investment attractiveness of financial instruments at KASE fromAugust 17 through 23

/IRBIS, Aug.24, 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 August 17 through 23. 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GS repo KZT *6.25 (4.69) 4,314.5 (1,678.0) 30,262.6 (11,757.4) MEKKAM, notes KZT *9.50 (10.12) 476.0 (1,842.1) 3,338.4 (12,907.1) MEKAVM USD *8.59 (9.58) 272.1 (623.8) 1,908.5 (4,371.1) Euronotes-2 USD 9.09 (9.42) 1.5 (146.1) 10.2 (1 023.9) Euronotes-4 USD 9.65 (9.84) 47.6 (47.1) 334.0 (330.3) KKGBb USD 9.66 (9.53) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) Euronotes-3 USD 9.86 (9.69) 196.9 (65.0) 1,381.3 (455.7) TMJLb USD 10.25 (10.41) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KZOLb USD 10.78 (10.78) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) HSBKb USD 12.66 (12.00) 77.4 ( 0) 543.1 ( 0) KOMBb USD 13.50 (13.50) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) ALKSb USD 15.16 (15.18) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) RENTb USD 17.17 ( -) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes: yields of corporate bonds are calculated 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 4.84% APR. 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.