In August volume of deals in securities grew up to $4,026.9 th. andtotalled for the year $63.3 mln

/IRBIS, Sep. 04, 00/ - In August 2000 20 deals for a total of $4,026.9 th. were registered in securities at Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE). At the primary market, 3 deals were made within the frame of TEMIRBANK OJSC coupon bonds floatation (Almaty, KZ75KAMJ8A57, official list of KASE securities, category "A", trade code TEBNb). The auction was held on August 24. Total amount of deals is $2,253.4 th. or 56.0% of all KASE deals in securities during the month. At the purchase and sale sector (secondary market), 17 deals involving 12 instruments were concluded on the sum of $1,773.5 th. or 44.0% of the turnover. The most liquid securities were coupon bonds of Halyk Bank Kazakhstan OJSC (Almaty, KZA7KAKK6A78, official list of KASE securities, category "A", trade code HSBKb) that took 50.1% of the total sector turnover. The second leader is ordinary registered shares of Bank TuranAlem OJSC (KZ1C34920412, official list of KASE securities, category "A", trade code BTAS) with 19.6% of the turnover. In August, 5 out of 17 concluded deals, were made by the brokers in Quotation system of KASE with exclusion of automatic satisfaction of the bids in counter auction mode (so-called direct deals made by the operators upon their agreement, not as a result of the trades on the market). Remaining 12 deals were made in the main mode of the Trade system of KASE by counter auction mode. In the securities repo sector, 3 deals were concluded in amount of $1,087.1 th. including 1 opening ($538.7 th.) and 2 closing ($548.4 th.) deals. The deals were made with ordinary inscribed shares and coupon bonds of Halyk Bank Kazakhstan OJSC. Twelve sessions out of 22 conducted were successful. Compared to previous month, the sector of primary floatation registered 83.3%: decrease in volume of deals, volume of the purchase-sale sector deals decreased by 78.4%, repo sector grew up 452.2%. The resulting growth in August in the securities trade sector of KASE is negative - $16,776.1 th.). Total volume of deals decreased by 76.6%. Below is a table presenting monthly volumes of deals with securities at KASE in year 2000 (thousand US dollars). ------------------------------------------------ Sector of the securities exchange market ---------------------------- Month Primary Secondary Repo Total ------------------------------------------------ January 21,410.1 21,410.1 February 464.8 963.8 1,428.6 March 2,284.3 385.7 2,670.0 April 338.4 840.9 1,057.7 2,237.1 May 3.9 1,633.3 9.1 1,646.3 June 818.5 8,677.2 17.8 9,513.5 July 13,503.2 8,190.1 196.9 21,890.1 August 2,253.4 1,773.5 1,087.1 5 114.00 ------------------------------------------------ TOTAL 17,382.2 45,773.2 2,754.2 65,939.6 ------------------------------------------------ In 1999 the volume of securities operations at KASE were equal to $21,603.2 th.