Investment attractiveness of financial instruments at KASE from March 15 to 21

/IRBIS, March 21, 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 March 15 to 21. 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 --------------- -------- -------------- ----------------- ------------------- Securities repo USD *15.29 (15.19) 311.9 (22.0) 2,143.2 (151.0) RENTb USD 15.00 (15.23) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) VITAb2 USD 13.52 (13.54) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) SMGZb1 USD 13.00 (13.00) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KZASb1 USD 12.00 (12.00) 159.2 (2.3) 1,093.7 (16.1) RGBRb2 USD 12.00 (12.00) 0.5 ( 0) 3.1 ( 0) BTASb1 USD 11.30 (11.50) 0 (351.4) 0 (2,415.3) KARMb1 USD 10.90 (10.90) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) CCBNb1 USD 10.62 (10.82) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) HSBKb USD 10.50 (10.50) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KZTOb USD 10.15 (10.20) 113.3 (29.3) 778.1 (201.6) KZOLb USD 10.10 (10.30) 7.4 (14.7) 50.6 (101.0) ATFBb USD 9.76 (9.48) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KKGBe2 USD 9.50 (9.50) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) TMJLb USD 8.25 (8.25) 0 (28.3) 0 (194.3) ALKSb USD 8.21 (9.25) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) Euronotes-4 USD 7.96 (8.12) 380.9 (605.1) 2,616.9 (4,158.2) TEBNb USD 7.84 (8.09) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) Euronotes-3 USD 7.44 (7.58) 1,169.4 (943.5) 8,034.3 (6,484.1) MEKKAM, notes KZT *6.23 (8.04) 1,910.1 (106.4) 13,123.0 (731.0) Euronotes-2 USD 6.71 (6.78) 177.9 (797.9) 1,222.0 (5,483.5) GB repo KZT *5.29 (5.36) 5,406.5 (8,993.8) 37,145.1 (61,808.7) KKGBb USD 5.49 (5.50) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) IFO bonds USD 4.66 (4.78) 22.6 (4.5) 155.2 (30.6) Securities repo KZT *2.02 (2.00) 34.9 (4.0) 239.6 (34.3) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes: Yields of KZASb1, KZOLb, KZTOb and RGBRb2 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 negative 0.89% 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.