Investment attractiveness of financial instruments at KASE from September 28 through October 04

/IRBIS, Oct 04, 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 28 through October 04. 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MEKKAM, notes KZT *8.84 (10.02) 1,868.5 (729.8) 13,109.4 (5,116.8) ALKSb USD 14.30 (14.41) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KOMBb USD 13.50 (13.50) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) GS repo KZT *5.03 (6.41) 2,599.0 (8,159.0) 18,234.9 (57,207.6) HSBKb USD 12.00 (12.00) 1.3 ( 0) 9.4 ( 0) ATFBb USD 11.38 ( -) 228.3 ( 0) 1,601.6 ( 0) KZOLb USD 11.20 (10.99) 0.1 ( 0) 1.0 ( 0) KKGBb USD 10.11 (10.12) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) TMJLb USD 10.00 (10.00) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) Euronotes-4 USD 9.67 (9.65) 6,850.0 (400.6) 7,701.0 (2,808.7) Euronotes-3 USD 9.63 (9.49) 13,680.0 (880.8) 16,425.2 (6,175.5) Euronotes-2 USD 8.79 ( -) 32.6 ( 0) 229.0 (6,175.5) TEBNb USD 8.76 (8.81) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) MEKAVM USD *8.34 (8.40) 78.8 (843.2) 553.0 (5,912.1) RENTb USD 7.80 (13.67) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notes: Yields of HSBKb, KZOLb and ATFBb estimated as average of deals including primary floatation. Yields for other 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 8.38% 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.