Investment attractiveness of financial instruments at KASE from May 16 to 22

/IRBIS, May 22, 02/ - 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 May 16 to 22. Trends are given relative to previous week. Instruments are given in descending order within the group, based on their attractiveness. ---------------------------------------- Yield, % APR Financial Currency of ------------ Instrument transaction value trend ------------- ----------- ----- ----- Instruments denominated in national currency, tenge ---------------------------------------- TXBNb1 KZT 15.00 0 МЕОКАМ МЕАКАМ KZT 8.26 -015 МЕККАМ notes KZT *5.50 +025 GS repo KZT *5.42 +029 ------------- ----------- ----- ----- Instruments indexed to KZT/USD rate fluctuation ---------------------------------------- SMGZb1 USD 13.00 0 ALKSb2 USD 11.99 +0.01 VTBNb1 USD 11.20 -0.29 RGBRb2 USD 11.00 0 KZASb1 USD 11.00 0 ASFIb2 USD 10.95 - TEBNb2 USD 10.80 0 BTASb2 USD 10.50 +0.14 ASFIb1 USD 10.50 0 BTASb1 USD 10.27 0 TEBNb USD 10.00 0 CSBNb1 USD 9.96 0 KZTKb1 USD 9.32 +1.71 ATFBb2 USD 9.27 +0.01 BRKZb1 USD 9.10 +0.48 ALBNb1 USD 8.97 0 KARMb1 USD 8.57 -0.36 SYRGb1 USD 8.50 0 CCBNb1 USD 8.41 -0.28 TMJLb2 USD 8.35 -0.35 HSBKb USD 7.63 -0.69 KZTOb USD 6.75 -0.03 ARU060.003 USD 6.72 0 ASU036.003 USD 6.68 +0.24 VKU036.001 USD 6.48 0 ARU024.002 USD 4.16 -0.04 ASU012.002 USD 0.71 +0.55 KZOLb USD 0.00 0 ------------- ----------- ----- ----- Instruments denominated in foreign currency ---------------------------------------- BTASe1 USD 9.36 +0.03 KKGBe2 USD 9.20 0 KZTOe1 USD 8.42 +0.02 ENU07.05 USD 5.36 +0.20 ENU04.10 USD 3.80 +0.12 ENU02.10 USD 3.27 -0.08 IFO bonds DEM 2.97 +0.08 IFO bonds USD 2.07 -0.03 ---------------------------------------- Yields of bonds at which deals were made are calculated as average of the deals. Yields of other corporate bonds are calculated as average of offer bids. A speed of devaluation of tenge during analyzed period is estimated at weighted average rate of the main session of KASE at negative 0.79% APR (tenge was firming against dollar). 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. [2002-05-22]