Investment attractiveness of financial instruments at KASE from February 22 to 28

/IRBIS, Feb 28, 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 February 22 to 28. 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 15.02 (15.07) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) VITAb2 USD 13.52 (13.54) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) Securities repo USD *13.13 (13.35) 48.0 (0.8) 330.5 (5.8) SMGZb1 USD 13.00 (13.00) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) RGBRb2 USD 12.53 (12.30) 135.7 ( 0) 933.7 ( 0) KZASb1 USD 11.70 (12.00) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) BTASb1 USD 11.30 (11.47) 18.6 ( 0) 127.7 ( 0) CCBNb1 USD 11.11 (10.94) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KARMb1 USD 10.90 (10.90) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KZOLb USD 10.65 (10.40) 29.1 (11.2) 200.0 (77.0) ATFBb USD 10.50 (10.52) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) HSBKb USD 10.50 (10.50) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KZTOb USD 10.21 (10.17) 14.6 ( 0) 100.2 ( 0) TMJLb USD 9.65 ( 9.90) 56.3 (161.6) 387.4 (1,111.9) ALKSb USD 9.52 (11.90) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KKGBe2 USD 9.51 ( 9.58) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) Securities repo KZT *9.00 ( -) 1.1 ( 0) 7.2 ( 0) Euronotes-4 USD 8.43 (8.43) 2,504.9 (654.2) 17,240.4 (4,501.8) Euronotes-3 USD 7.67 (7.71) 387.5 (794.4) 2,667.2 (5,466.9) Euronotes-2 USD 7.66 (7.57) 80.4 (315.5) 553.4 (2,171.5) MEKAVM USD *7.23 (8.28) 53.8 (64.1) 370.5 (441.9) MEKKAM, notes KZT *7.31 (7.79) 951.4 (1,022.5) 6,548.2 (7,036.6) TEBNb USD 6.82 (8.48) 4.5 ( 0) 30.6 ( 0) GB repo KZT *7.00 (7.13) 3,696.2 (3,988.4) 25,440.4 (27,447.2) Bonds of IFO USD 5.10 ( -) 260.3 ( 0) 1,791.3 ( 0) KKGBb USD 4.82 (3.53) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes: Yields of BTASb1, KZOLb, KZTOb, RGBRb2, TEBNb, and TMJLb are calculated 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 0.39% APR (tenge revalued against 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.