In 2016 foreign currency trade volume on KASE decreased 45.4 % and made up KZT36.1 trln ($104.9 bn)

/KASE, January 6, 2017/ – In 2016 the volume of foreign currency trading on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), including currency swap transactions, made up KZT36,124.4 bn (equivalent of USD104,863.0 mln) having decreased by 45.4 % (66.5 % in dollar terms) against the same period of 2015. Below is the table on currency trade statistics in 2016 with the breakdown by month, currency and deal type, and comparative data of 2015. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Trades volume ------------------------------------------ ----------------- -------- --------- Spot-market, mln Swap-market, mln ------------------------------------------ ----------------- -------- ------- -------- ------- total, total, Year, USD/KZT EUR/KZT RUB/KZT EUR/USD CNY/KZT bn bn month USD/KZT EUR/KZT KZT USD ---------- -------- ------- -------- ------- -------- --------- ------- -------- --------- 2016, I 2322.2 2.0 1021.5 0 4.9 13029.2 0 5650.0 15367.4 2016, II 2386.3 1.7 1646.0 1.5 6.6 7501.7 0 3566.5 9913.8 2016, III 2960.5 2.4 1029.6 0.2 4.5 4363.5 0 2529.8 7342.2 2016, IV 2758.0 1.7 1517.3 0.4 8.0 5580.0 0 2819.3 8364.4 2016, V 2503.2 1.6 744.6 0 6.4 3314.5 0 1943.2 5831.8 2016, VI 2662.6 2.7 867.8 0 5.0 5683.1 0 2817.6 8362.8 2016, VII 2250.8 1.7 740.0 0 5.7 5038.8 0 2505.2 7303.9 2016, VIII 2821.7 1.1 927.4 1.5 7.4 6447.1 0 3202.5 9287.1 2016, IX 2243.0 1.2 669.1 0 9.1 4590.2 0 2315.0 6846.3 2016, X 2181.7 2.6 1023.4 0 6.7 4350.2 0 2175.2 6552.0 2016, XI 2838.8 1.8 1572.3 0 12.0 4860.0 0 2620.3 7727.0 2016, XII 2453.4 3.2 1395.0 0 20.5 9482.1 0 3979.9 11964.5 ---------- -------- ------- -------- ------- -------- --------- ------- -------- --------- Total 30 381.9 23.6 13 154.0 3.6 96.7 74 240.4 0 36 124.4 104 863.0 ---------- -------- ------- -------- ------- -------- --------- ------- -------- --------- 2015 55 831.6 37.0 18 319.2 1.3 51.2 256 630.0 0 66 202.3 312 812.5 trend, % -45.6 -36.3 -28.2 +188.0 +89.0 -71.1 X -45.4 -66.5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The weighted average rate of the tenge to the US dollar, calculated on all deals of the main (morning) trading session on KASE in the period from January 5, 2016 to December 30, 2016, made up KZT342.37 per US dollar, on all exchange deals – KZT342.06 per US dollar. [2017-01-06]