Investment attractiveness of financial instruments at KASE from October 25 through 31

/IRBIS, Oct 31, 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 October 25 through 31. 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CS Repo KZT *12.00 ( -) 5.1 (0) 34.5 (0) МЕОКАМ, МЕАКАМ KZT 8.28 (9.81) 270.2 (2305.2) 1824.4 (15571.6) МЕККАМ, notes KZT *5.63 (*5.70) 345.6 (302.3) 2333.4 (2042.2) GS Repo KZT *5.34 (*5.17) 16749.0(13329.9) 113082.3(90038.3) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Instruments indexed to the US dollar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SMGZb1 USD 13.00 (13.00) 0 (0) 0 (0) GS repo USD *13.00 (*8.97) 44.4 (904.6) 300.0 (6109.7) ALKSb2 USD 11.98 (11.99) 0 (0) 0 (0) VTBNb1 USD 11.50 (11.49) 0 (52.2) 0 (352.8) CCBNb1 USD 11.07 (11.07) 0 (0) 0 (0) KARMb1 USD 11.00 (12.05) 402.6 (1.5) 2718.1 (10.2) VITAb2 USD 11.00 (12.00) 0 (31.2) 210.8 (0) RGBRb2 USD 11.00 (11.00) 0 (0) 0 (0) KZASb1 USD 11.00 (11.00) 0 (0) 0 (0) TEBNb2 USD 11.00 (10.89) 270.3 (0) 1824.8 (0) BTASb1 USD 10.88 (10.70) 0 (0) 0 (0) ASFIb1 USD 10.50 (10.50) 0 (0) 0 (0) TEBNb USD 10.50 (10.50) 0 (0) 0 (0) KZTOb USD 9.81 (9.28) 176.5 (7.4) 1191.9 (49.8) KZOLb USD 8.95 (8.26) 173.9 (30.8) 1174.2 (207.8) TMJLb2 USD 8.80 (10.00) 0 (28.9) 0 (195.0) HSBKb USD 8.72 (8.35) 0 (0) 0 (0) SYRGb1 USD 8.50 (8.50) 0 (0) 0 (0) VKU036.001 USD 8.38 (8.41) 137.0 (117.2) 925.5 (791.7) ARU060.003 USD 8.34 (8.35) 0 (0) 0 (0) ARU024.002 USD 7.42 (7.43) 0 (0) 0 (0) ASU012.002 USD 5.13 (5.21) 0 (0) 0 (0) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Instruments, denominated in foreign currency ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BTASe1 USD 10.84 (10.85) 0 (0) 0 (0) KZTOe1 USD 9.63 (10.13) 0 (214.2) 0 (1446.6) KKGBe2 USD 9.31 (9.20) 0 (0) 0 (0) ENU05.07 USD 6.86 (6.94) 251.0 (325.5) 1,694.8 (2199.4) ENU04.10 USD 6.37 (6.42) 30.2 (898.7) 203.5 (6069.7) Supranational bonds DEM 3.74 (3.86) 0 (0) 0 (0) Supranational bonds USD 1.81 (2.02) 0 (0) 0 (0) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notes: Yields of bonds at which deals were made(volume of deals is not zero) are calculated as average of the deals. Yields of other corporate bonds are calculated as average of offer bids. The correspondent figure of last week is given in the parentheses. A speed of devaluation of tenge during analyzed period is estimated at weighted average rate of the main session of KASE at 2.61% APR. The yields, shown here, do not incorporate overhead expenses that are inevitable when conducting operations and fixing profits. Securities marked by an asterisk are the instruments with less than a year circulation term. Weighted average effective yields are given for them.