Investment attractiveness of financial instruments at KASE from December 14 to 20

/IRBIS, Dec.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 December 14 to 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 15.04 (15.03) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) VITAb2 USD 14.50 (14.25) 21.8 ( 0) 150.8 ( 0) KOMBb USD 14.43 (14.68) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) ALKSb USD 14.24 (14.35) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) CCBNb1 USD 12.03 ( -) 194.5 ( 0) 1,343.7 ( 0) ATFBb USD 10.95 (10.95) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KZOLb USD 10.54 (10.56) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) HSBKb USD 10.48 (10.43) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KZTOb USD 10.39 (10.38) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) TMJLb USD 10.04 (10.08) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) Euronotes-4 USD 9.18 (9.43) 2,937.2 (589.3) 20,295.8 (4,074.8) Euronotes -2 USD 8.99 (8.85) 102.4 (97.9) 707.4 (677.2) Euronotes -3 USD 8.70 (8.85) 4,231.3 (642.3) 29,237.8 (4,441.2) MEKKAM, notes USD *8.54 (6.47) 1,747.1 (1,414.7) 12,072.6 (9,781.7) MEKAVM USD *8.69 ( -) 25.5 ( 0) 176.0 ( 0) TEBNb KZT 8.00 (8.09) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KKGBb KZT 5.76 (8.92) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) GB repo KZT *2.68 (4.13) 4,283.8 (3,308.8) 29,600.8 (22,877.6) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notes: Yields for CCBNb1, VITAb2 estimated as deals average. 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 minus 0.16% APR. 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.