/KASE, May 16, 2018/ – In January-April 2018, the volume of trading in foreign currencies spot market of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) made up KZT4,538.7 bn increasing by 44.1% against the corresponding period of 2017.

The trading volume decreased by 2.8% compared to previous four-month period (September-December) of 2017.

Below is the table of indicators of KASE's foreign currency spot market in 2018 with the breakdown by currency pairs (in mln units of the first of the currency pair), and comparative data of the similar data of 2017.

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                                       Trade volume        
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Year,      -------- ------- -------                  Total,
month       USD/KZT EUR/KZT  bn KZT EUR/USD CNY/KZT  bn KZT
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2018, I     3,798.9     2.9   586.8       0    26.4 1,244.8
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2018, II    3,334.7     3.0 1,102.0       0     6.3 1,081.2
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2018, III   2,363.1     2.0 1,095.8       0    10.3   765.2
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2018, IV    4,367.3     7.8 1,539.5    26.0    15.0 1,447.5
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Total      13,863.9    15.6 4,324.1    26.0    58.0 4,538.7
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2017, I–IV  9,792.5    30.2 4,365.5       0    46.0 3,149.6
trend, %      +41.6   -48.3    -0.9       X   +26.0   +44.1
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The weighted average KZT/USD exchange rate calculated on all exchange deals for the period from January 3, 2018 to April 28, 2018, made KZT324.23 per US dollar.

[2018-05-16]