Investment attractiveness of financial instruments at KASE from October 12 through 18

/IRBIS, Oct 18, 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 October 05 to 18. 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 ------------- -------- ------------- ----------------- ------------------- ALKSb USD 14.97 (14.63) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KOMBb USD 13.50 (13.50) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KZOLb USD 11.30 (10.83) 18.9 ( 0) 132.5 ( 0) ATFBb USD 11.21 (11.26) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) HSBKb USD 10.50 (10.50) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) MEKKAM, notes KZT *10.36 (9.43) 1,394.9 (1,092.8) 9,782.9 (7,666.3) TMJLb USD 10.00 (10.00) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KKGBb USD 9.85 (9.96) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) Euronotes-4 USD 9.58 (9.60) 2,448.4 (2,438.3) 17,171.0 (17,105.1) Euronotes-3 USD 9.21 (9.23) 1,146.1 (626.9) 8,037.8 (4,397.7) Euronotes-2 USD 9.04 (8.91) 11.4 (76.6) 79.6 (537.6) TEBNb USD 8.64 (8.70) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) MEKAVM USD *7.70 (8.14) 34.4 (241.7) 241.1 (1,695.3) RENTb USD 6.47 (7.15) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) GS repo KZT *3.44 (3.15) 2,258.0 (1,881.0) 15,835.6 (13,195.2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notes: Yields for KZOLb calculated as deals average including primary floatation. Yields of 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 trend of 0.19% 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.