Investment attractiveness of financial instruments at KASE fromSeptember 14 through 20

/IRBIS, Sep 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 September 14 through 20. 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RENTb USD 15.03 (15.00) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) ALKSb USD 13.50 (15.11) 0 ( 0) 3.1 (3.1) KOMBb USD 13.50 (13.50) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) HSBKb USD 12.00 (12.00) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KZOLb USD 11.71 (12.04) 84.6 (14.0) 592.8 (98.3) MEKKAM, notes KZT *8.45 (8.57) 1,474.4 (370.3) 10,334.2 (2,592.6) KKGBb USD 10.13 (10.13) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) TMJLb USD 10.00 (10.00) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) Euronotes-4 USD 9.66 (9.56) 1,528.8 (2,642.8) 10,715.5 (18,500.9) Euronotes-3 USD 9.45 (9.46) 18.9 (291.5) 132.3 (2,040.5) MEKAVM USD *9.08 (7.10) 327.7 (77.4) 2,296.8 (541.6) Repo GS KZT *6.37 (5.41) 4,003.0 (3,474.4) 28,058.1 (24,322.0) TEBNb USD 8.87 (11.28) 0 (1.4) 0 (10.1) Euronotes-2 USD 8.83 (9.18) 44.2 (759.0) 309.9 (5,313.5) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notes: Yield for KZOLb estimated as deals average rate; yields of the rest 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 negative trend of 2.54% 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.