Pension funds of Kazakhstan purchased IBM stocks (USA)

/IRBIS, June 18, 02/ - Today common stocks of IBM Corporation - International Business Machines Corporation (1 New Orchard Road, Armonk, NY, 10504, USA, www.ibm.com) were included into the securities register of pension market subjects. According to the information provided by BLOOMBERG, these stocks have ISIN US4592001014, par value $0.2 and are quoted at NYSE (this stock exchange is determined as the leading for this instrument). Current market value at NYSE - $76.20 (June 18, 10:28 am ET). For the last 52 weeks the maximum price for the stock was fixed at the level of $126.39 on January 09. 2002 and minimum $73.25 on June 14, 2002. According to the information provided by Moody's Investors Service (official web-site), the issuer has a long-term credit rating on primary unsecured debt in foreign currency at "A1" level (assigned on April 17, 2002) and short-term rating of commercial securities in local currency at "P1" level dated March 22, 2002. According to the information priovided by Standard & Poor's (official web-site), International Business Machines Corporation has a long-term rating of "A+" grade and long-term "A-1" with stable prognozing. There is no any information about IBM credit ratings on the official site of Fitch, Inc agency. [2002-06-18]