/IRBIS, Oct.17, 00/ - By the results of trades in shares at the KASE on October 17, the KASE index grew by 0.9270 and equaled 100.5760 at the day closing.

Within a day the change in the index was due to an increase in bid prices of:

• common shares of Kazakhtelecom from $15.00 to $16.00 per share;
• common shares of Bank TuranAlem OJSC - from $70.00 to $86.00;
• common shares of Bank CenterCredit OJSC - from $1.1601 to $1.1704.

Following is the table of daily values of the index at the closing of the trades for the last 10 days.

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Date           Index     Trend
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Oct.4.00    100.7598   +0.7592
Oct.5.00     99.3931   -1.3667
Oct.6.00    100.9196   +1.5265
Oct.9.00     99.2832   -1.6364
Oct.10.00   100.7614   +1.4782
Oct.11.00   100.0000   -0.7614
Oct.12.00   100.0223   +0.0223
Oct.13.00   100.4737   +0.4514
Oct.16.00    99.6490   -0.8247
Oct.17.00   100.5760   +0.9270
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