Investment attractiveness of financial instruments at KASE from January 18 through 24

/IRBIS, Jan 24, 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 January 18 through 24. 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 --------------- -------- -------------- ----------------- ------------------- MEKKAM, notes KZT *8.04 (7.84) 939.8 (1,455.1) 6,476.2 (10,018.2) GB repo KZT *6.58 (8.89) 6,502.7 (9,423.2) 44,812.5 (64,875.7) Securities repo USD *14.49 (14.50) 156.9 (23.0) 1,081.1 (158.5) VITAb2 USD 13.54 (13.54) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) ALKSb USD 13.08 (13.26) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) HSBKb USD 11.60 (11.59) 65.1 (73.9) 448.4 (508.7) CCBNb1 USD 11.45 (11.70) 0 (26.8) 0 (184.6) KARMb1 USD 10.90 (10.90) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) ATFBb USD 10.60 (11.01) 0 (44.7) 0 (307.6) KZOLb USD 10.24 (10.25) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KZTOb USD 10.18 (10.18) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) TMJLb USD 9.75 (9.82) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KKGBe2 USD 9.59 (9.59) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) Euronotes-4 USD 8.74 (8.85) 168.0 (152.7) 1,157.7 (1,051.3) Euronotes-2 USD 8.45 (8.69) 309.2 (307.9) 2,130.5 (2,120.0) Euronotes-3 USD 8.26 (8.19) 872.5 (2,276.7) 6,012.6 (15,674.2) MEKAVM USD *7.06 (7.31) 154.5 (1,302.8) 1,065.0 (8,969.7) TEBNb USD 6.25 (7.47) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KKGBb USD 5.04 (5.19) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes: Yields of HSBKb estimated as average of the deals. Yields of other corporate bonds are calculated as average of offer bids. In this week tenge devaluation rate is estimated at weighted average rate of the main session of KASE by a negative trend of 9.59% 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.