Futures market of KASE: as prices of $1,000 futures decline December contracts closed

/IRBIS, Dec 12, 01/ - On Wednesday during the currency futures trades held at Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) a total of 3 deals were made in USD1,000 futures. The volume of deals reached 4,673 contracts. All deals were December contracts closing positions. As a result, volume of opened interest on the trade floor declined to $58,439.0 th. Following are the results of the trades held at KASE on December 12 with bid and ask parameters at closing of the session. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- At closing of trades -------------------------------------------------- best settlement ------------------------------ Deals price bid ask volume ----------- ------------ -------------- -------------- of open Contract numb- vo- value price quota- quota- posi- code er lume trend tion trend tion trend tions ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Non-delivery futures USD1,000 (KZT for USD) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- FUSD0112UN 3 4,673 150.09 -0.40 149.70 -0.40 150.10 -0.40 0 FUSD0201UN 0 0 - - 150.00 -0.20 150.40 -0.20 0 FUSD0202UN 0 0 151.05 0 150.30 -0.40 150.90 -0.20 4,746 FUSD0203UN 0 0 151.09 0 150.50 -0.30 151.30 -0.10 8,934 FUSD0204UN 0 0 151.69 0 151.00 0 151.80 0 19,919 FUSD0205UN 0 0 152.29 0 151.50 0 152.50 0 24,840 ---------- ----- ----- ------ ----- ------ ------- ------ ------- ------- Total 3 4,673 58,439 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Non-delivery futures EUR1,000 (USD for EUR) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- FU_E0112UN 0 0 - - 0,8960 +0,0060 0,8980 +0,0060 0 FU_E0201UN 0 0 - - 0.8960 +0.0060 0.9000 +0.0070 0 FU_E0202UN 0 0 - - 0.8970 +0.0070 0.9010 +0.0070 0 FU_E0203UN 0 0 - - 0.8940 +0.0040 0.9000 +0.0050 0 FU_E0204UN 0 0 - - 0.8940 +0.0040 0.9000 +0.0040 0 FU_E0205UN 0 0 - - 0.8940 +0.0040 0.9000 +0.0030 0 ---------- ----- ----- ------ ----- ------ ------- ------ ------- ------- Total 0 0 0 ---------- ----- ----- ------ ----- ------ ------- ------ ------- ------- SUBTOTAL 3 4,673 58,439 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fifth and sixth positions in the contract code indicate the settlement year, seventh and eighth - settlement month. Settlements are made on last Friday of the indicated month. All volumes are given in contracts. Price trends are given relative to previous successful day, quotations - against previous trading day. Volume of open purchasing (or selling, since they are equal) is given.