Investment attractiveness of financial instruments at KASE from September 20 through 26

/IRBIS, Sept 26, 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 September 20 through 26. In parentheses - figures of previous period. Instruments are given in descending order within the group, based on their attractiveness. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Financial Volume of Volume of instrument Currency Yield, % APR deals, KZT m deals, USD m ------------------- -------- ------------- ----------------- ------------------ Instruments denominated in national currency, tenge ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- МЕОКАМ, МЕАКАМ KZT 9.91 (9.30) 1,626.6 (1378.1) 11,011.6 (9321.5) CS Repo KZT *8.03 (10.75) 596.4 (259.9) 4,037.4 (1758.5) МЕККАМ, notes KZT *5.25 (4.96) 482.3 (242.0) 3,265.2 (1636.7) GS Repo KZT *5.09 (3.90) 8,398.3 (11536.3) 56,853.2 (78029.2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Instruments indexed to the US dollar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SMGZb1 USD 13.01 (13.52) 0 (80.5) 0 (544.8) VITAb2 USD 12.50 (12.50) 0 (0) 0 (0) ALKSb2 USD 12.00 (11.99) 42.2 (0) 285.5 (0) CCBNb1 USD 11.08 (11.09) 0 (0) 0 (0) KZASb1 USD 11.00 (11.00) 0 (0) 0 (0) RGBRb2 USD 11.00 (11.00) 0 (0) 0 (0) TEBNb2 USD 11.00 ( -) 222.3 (0) 1,505.4 (0) KARMb1 USD 10.93 (11.49) 7.6 (0) 51.5 (0) BTASb1 USD 10.70 (11.20) 0 (7.8) 0 (52.4) ASFIb1 USD 10.50 (10.50) 0 (0) 0 (0) TEBNb USD 10.00 (10.50) 0 (0) 0 (0) TMJLb2 USD 9.50 (8.80) 1,028.9 (0) 6,966.2 (0) SYRGb1 USD 8.50 (8.50) 0 (0) 0 (0) KZTOb USD 8.50 (8.10) 76.5 (3.1) 518.2 (21.1) HSBKb USD 8.39 (8.40) 0 (0) 0 (0) VKU USD 8.38 (8.38) 30.4 (114.1) 206.0 (773.5) KZOLb USD 8.14 (8.23) 15.3 (13.1) 103.3 (88.6) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Instruments, denominated in US dollars ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BTASe1 USD 10.65 (10.65) 0 (0) 0 (0) KKGBe2 USD 9.20 (9.20) 0 (0) 0 (0) KZTOe1 USD 8.62 (8.62) 0 (0) 0 (0) Euronotes-4 USD 6.99 (7.04) 232.9 (423.3) 1,576.2 (2861.5) Euronotes-2 USD 5.57 (5.71) 66.2 (245.4) 448.4 (1660.4) Supranational bonds USD 3.52 (3.55) 10.7 (1.5) 72.2 (10.3) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes: Yields of ALKSb2, KARMb1, KZOLb, KZTOb, TEBNb2, TMJLb2 are calculated as average of the deals, including initial additional floatation. Yields of other corporate bonds are calculated as average of offer bids. The correspondent ratio of last week is given in the parentheses. In this week tenge devaluation rate is estimated at weighted average rate of the main session of KASE as negative 1.68% 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). Securities marked by a star are the instruments with less than a year circulation term. Weighted average effective yields are given for them.