Investment attractiveness of financial instruments at KASE from December 28, 2000 to January 10, 2001

/IRBIS, Jan 10, 01/ - 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 28, 2000 to January 10, 2001. 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 ------------- -------- ------------- ------------------ ------------------- VITAb2 USD 13.73 (14.00) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) ALKSb USD 13.59 (14.13) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) CCBNb1 USD 11.69 (12.00) 1.8 (39.7) 12.2 (273.9) KARMb1 USD 10.90 ( -) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) ATFBb USD 10.72 (10.95) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) HSBKb USD 10.36 (10.50) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KZOLb USD 10.31 (10.67) 0 (0.1) 0 (0.7) KZTOb USD 10.27 (10.38) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) TMJLb USD 9.90 (10.04) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KKGBe2 USD 9.60 ( -) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) Euronotes-2 USD 9.06 (8.81) 1,020.5 (208.8) 7,014.6 (1,439.3) Euronotes-4 USD 8.96 (9.04) 1,573.4 (5,998.5) 10,815.5 (41,355.0) Euronotes-3 USD 8.45 (8.54) 1,039.9 (1,364.0) 7,148.3 (9,403.7) TEBNb USD 7.66 (7.91) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) MEKAVM USD *6.00 (6.99) 245.4 (187.2) 1,686.5 (1,290.7) KKGBb USD 5.38 (10.20) 0 (158.0) 0 (1,089.6) MEKKAM, notes KZT *7.76 (6.02) 1,881.5 (874.9) 12,933.1 (6,032.0) REPO GB KZT *7.66 (5.60) 13,379.3 (9,112.9) 91,966.9 (62,825.7) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes: Yields for CCBNb1 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 5.96% 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.