Investment attractiveness of financial instruments at KASE from December 21 to 27

/IRBIS, Dec.27, 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 21 to 27. 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 (15.04) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) ALKSb USD 14.13 (14.24) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) VITAb2 USD 14.00 (14.50) 0 (21.8) 0 (150.8) CCBNb1 USD 12.00 (12.03) 39.7 (194.5) 273.9 (1,343.7) ATFBb USD 10.95 (10.95) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KZOLb USD 10.67 (10.54) 0.1 ( 0) 0.7 ( 0) HSBKb USD 10.50 (10.48) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KZTOb USD 10.38 (10.39) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KKGBb USD 10.20 (5.76) 158.0 ( 0) 1,089.6 ( 0) TMJLb USD 10.04 (10.04) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) Euronotes-4 USD 9.04 (9.18) 5,998.5 (2,937.2) 41,355.0 (20,295.8) Euronotes -2 USD 8.81 (8.99) 208.8 (102.4) 1,439.3 (707.4) Euronotes -3 USD 8.54 (8.70) 1,364.0 (4,231.3) 9,403.7 (29,237.8) TEBNb USD 7.91 (8.00) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) MEKAVM USD *6.99 (8.69) 187.2 (25.5) 1,290.7 (176.0) MEKKAM, notes KZT *6.02 (8.54) 874.9 (1,747.1) 6,032.0 (12,072.6) Repo GB KZT *5.60 (2.68) 9,112.9 (4,283.8) 62,825.7 (29,600.8) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notes: Yields for CCBNb1, KKGBb, KZOLb 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 14.16% 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.