Futures market of KASE: quotations on four dollar contracts were opened

/IRBIS, Jan 08, 02/ - On Tuesday during the non-delivery currency future contracts trades held at Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) 12 deals were made on USD1,000 futures. Deals volume totaled 62,715 contracts. Transactions for the amount of $62,715.0 th. were directed into opening position on March, April, May and June futures. After end of trades volume of open interest at the exchange accounted for $53,478.0 th. Following are the results of the trades held at KASE on January 08 with bid and offer parameters at closing of the session. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At closing of trades ------------------------------------------------------ best settlement ------------------------------- Deals price bid offer volume ------------ ------------- --------------- -------------- of open Contract num- vo- price quota- quota- posi- code ber lume value trend tion trend tion trend tions -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Non-delivery futures USD1,000 (KZT for USD) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FUSD0201UN 0 0 - - 151.60 0 151.90 +0.10 0 FUSD0202UN 0 0 - - 151.80 0 152.20 0 0 FUSD0203UN 1 1,249 152.05 +0.42 152.00 0 152.60 0 1,249 FUSD0204UN 3 12,301 152.87 -2.61 152.40 +0.10 153.00 +0.10 10,080 FUSD0205UN 1 3,977 153.10 -3.07 152.50 0 153.50 0 3,977 FUSD0206UN 1 45,188 153.33 153.00 0 154.00 0 38,172 ---------- ---- ------ ------ ----- ------ ------- ------ ------ ------ Total 12 62,715 53,478 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Non-delivery futures EUR1,000 (USD for EUR) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FU_E0201UN 0 0 - - 0.8900 -0.0050 0.8920 -0.0060 0 FU_E0202UN 0 0 - - 0.8900 -0.0050 0.8940 -0.0040 0 FU_E0203UN 0 0 - - 0.8890 -0.0050 0.8950 -0.0040 0 FU_E0204UN 0 0 - - 0.8890 -0.0040 0.8950 -0.0040 0 FU_E0205UN 0 0 - - 0.8880 -0.0040 0.8960 -0.0040 0 FU_E0206UN 0 0 - - 0.8870 -0.0030 0.8970 -0.0030 0 ---------- ---- ------ ------ ----- ------ ------- ------ ------- ------ Total 0 0 0 ---------- ---- ------ ------ ----- ------ ------- ------ ------- ------- SUBTOTAL 12 62,715 53,478 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fifth and sixth positions in the contract code indicate the settlement year, seventh and eighth - settlement month. Settlement on contract is 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.