Investment attractiveness of financial instruments at KASE from April 12 to 18

/IRBIS, Apr 18, 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 April 12 to 18. 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 *15.67 (16.10) 298.1 (124.4) 2,048.5 (854.5) VITAb2 USD 13.54 (14.01) 0 (20.4) 0 (140.4) RGBRb2 USD 12.00 (12.00) 0 (0.5) 0 (3.1) KZASb1 USD 11.50 (11.87) 0 (14.7) 0 (101.2) BTASb1 USD 11.30 (11.50) 0 (17.0) 0 (116.6) CCBNb1 USD 10.60 (10.61) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KARMb1 USD 10.16 (10.16) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KZTOb USD 10.11 (9.56) 92.0 (28.7) 632.5 (196.8) TEBNb USD 9.71 (9.71) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KKGBe2 USD 9.50 (9.51) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KZOLb USD 9.30 (10.26) 22.5 (17.9) 154.5 (122.7) ATFBb USD 9.25 (9.50) 0 (1.5) 0 (10.1) HSBKb USD 8.50 (8.50) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) SYRGb1 USD 8.40 (8.40) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) Euronotes-4 USD 7.39 (7.28) 1,480.6 (1,990.0) 10,175.1 (13,668.2) Euronotes-3 USD 7.20 (7.96) 582.5 (2,384.7) 4,003.1 (16,379.6) Euronotes-2 USD 6.20 (6.24) 3.0 (1,315.2) 20.7 (9,033.9) MEKKAM, notes KZT *6.44 (6.04) 787.4 (1,225.2) 5,411.1 (8,415.4) TMJLb USD 5.95 (7.75) 0 (14.3) 0 (98.3) GB repo KZT *5.94 (4.84) 8,544.5 (3,671.7) 58,720.8 (25,219.1) KKGBb USD 5.45 (4.93) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes: Yields of KZOLb and KZTOb 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 as 0.26% 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.