Investment attractiveness of financial instruments at KASE from April 26 to May 2

/IRBIS, May 02, 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 26 to May 2. 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 --------------- -------- -------------- ----------------- ------------------- RGBRb2 USD 12.00 (12.00) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KZASb1 USD 11.50 (11.50) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) BTASb1 USD 11.25 (11.50) 7.8 (32.4) 53.4 (222.7) KARMb1 USD 10.99 (10.36) 311.5 ( 0) 2,140.3 ( 0) VITAb2 USD 10.96 (13.54) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) CCBNb1 USD 10.58 (10.60) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) Securities repo USD *10.43 (11.57) 197.9 (111.0) 1,357.4 (762.8) KZTOb USD 10.22 (10.14) 36.9 (140.6) 253.5 (966.0) KZOLb USD 10.12 (9.89) 34.4 (173.0) 236.1 (1,189.2) KKGBe2 USD 9.50 (9.51) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) TEBNb USD 9.46 (9.57) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) ATFBb USD 9.25 (9.25) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) SYRGb1 USD 8.62 (8.50) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) HSBKb USD 8.50 (8.50) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) Euronotes-4 USD 7.41 (7.28) 234.5 (1,480.9) 1,608.2 (10,178.0) Euronotes-3 USD 7.20 (7.17) 1,486.6 (1,744.9) 10,194.6 (11,992.3) TMJLb USD 6.31 (6.37) 0 (57.6) 0 (395.9) Euronotes-2 USD 6.23 (6.11) 85.4 (791.5) 585.6 (5,439.9) KKGBb USD 5.55 (5.71) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) MEKKAM, notes KZT *5.64 (6.00) 661.4 (650.4) 4,536.0 (4,469.8) GB repo KZT *4.73 (4.59) 3,759.8 (5,742.7) 25,783.8 (39,468.8) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes: Yields of BTASb1, KARMb1, 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 9.18% 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.