In January-March 2018 trading volume on KASE money market decreased by 15.9 % to KZT30.2 trln

/KASE, April 16, 2018/ – In January-March 2018 the volume of trading on the money market of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), including the repo market and currency swap market, made up KZT30,212.0 bn decreasing by 15.9 % against the similar period of 2017. In comparison with previous three-month period (December-March) of 2017, the volume of trades on the money market increased by 8.2 %. The table below shows the volume of trades on KASE money market in 2018 (as opposed to the turnover, this indicator accounts only for amounts raised on the repo market and currency swap market) by main sectors, and comparative data of 2017. REPO TRANSACTIONS MARKET, bn KZT ------------------------------------------------------------ Year, Auto repo "Nego" repo Repo with ---------------- ----------- ---------- -------- Month CS GS CS GS Month CS ----------- ------- -------- ------- --- ---------- -------- 2018, I 120.2 6,819.4 14.8 0 6.9 6,961.4 ----------- ------- -------- ------- --- ---------- -------- 2018, II 93.3 5,665.8 9.2 0 7.0 5,775.3 ----------- ------- -------- ------- --- ---------- -------- 2018, III 105.9 6,101.7 18.1 0 5.8 6,231.5 ----------- ------- -------- ------- --- ---------- -------- Total 319.4 18,587.0 42.1 0 19.8 18,968.2 ----------- ------- -------- ------- --- ---------- -------- 2017, I–III 2,137.1 15,307.4 27.3 0 <0.1 17,471.7 trend, % -85.1 +21.4 +54.3 0 +168,196.9 +8.6 ------------------------------------------------------------ CS – corporate serial securities; GS – government serial securities; nego repo – repo transactions carried out directly (with conclusion of nego opening and closing repo deals). CURRENCY SWAP TRANSACTIONS MARKET, bn KZT ------------------------------------------------- USD/KZT EUR/KZT ---------------- Year, ------- -------- ----- ----- month 1 day 2 days 1 day month 1 day ----------- ------- -------- ----- ----- -------- 2018, I 1,133.1 3,044.8 0 0 4,177.9 2018, II 750.2 3,271.7 0 0 4,021.9 2018, III 510.7 2,533.2 0 0 3,044.0 ----------- ------- -------- ----- ----- -------- Total 2,394.0 8,849.8 0 0 11,243.8 ----------- ------- -------- ----- ----- -------- 2017, I–III 2,144.2 16,318.3 0 0 18,462.5 trend, % +11.7 -45.8 X X -39.1 ------------------------------------------------- [2018-04-16]