Investment attractiveness of financial instruments at KASE from January 25 through 31

/IRBIS, Jan 31, 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 25 through 31. 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 13.52 (13.54) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) ALKSb USD 12.88 (13.08) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) CCBNb1 USD 11.29 (11.45) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) HSBKb USD 11.27 (11.60) 135.4 (65.1) 932.9 (448.4) KARMb1 USD 10.90 (10.90) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) ATFBb USD 10.60 (11.60) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KZOLb USD 10.26 (10.24) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KZTOb USD 10.17 (10.18) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) TMJLb USD 9.75 (9.75) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KKGBe2 USD 9.59 (9.59) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) Euronotes-4 USD 8.69 (8.74) 1,522.7 (168.0) 10,493.0 (1,157.7) Euronotes-2 USD 8.38 (8.45) 366.4 (309.2) 2,524.7 (2,130.5) Euronotes-3 USD 8.08 (8.26) 1,430.6 (872.5) 9,858.4 (6,012.6) MEKAVM USD *6.19 (7.06) 123.6 (154.5) 851.9 (1,065.0) TEBNb USD 6.14 (6.25) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) MEKKAM, notes KZT *7.79 (8.04) 1,497.9 (939.8) 10,322.1 (6,476.2) KKGBb USD 4.89 (5.04) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) GB repo KZT *4.56 (6.58) 3,731.8 (6,502.7) 25,715.6 (44,812.5) 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 1.86% 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.