In January–August 2018 volume of foreign currencies traded on KASE increased by 17.8 % to KZT9.0 trln

/KASE, September 10, 2018/ – In January–August 2018, the volume of trading on the foreign currencies spot market of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) made up KZT9,017.2 bn increasing by 17.8 %.against the corresponding period of 2017. The trading volume decreased by 1.7 %. compared to the previous eight-month period (May–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 currencies in the pair), and comparative data of the similar data of 2017. -------------------------------------------------------------- Trade volume Year, ----------------------------------------- total, Month USD/KZT EUR/KZT RUB/KZT EUR/USD CNY/KZT bn KZT ------------ -------- ------- -------- ------- ------- ------- 2018, I 3,798.9 2.9 586.8 0 26.4 1,244.8 2018, II 3,334.7 3.0 1,102.0 0 6.3 1,081.2 2018, III 2,363.1 2.0 1,095.8 0 10.3 765.2 2018, IV 4,367.3 7.8 1,539.5 26.0 15.0 1,447.5 2018, V 3,124.1 10.2 943.1 15.0 9.1 1,040.1 2018, VI 3,029.3 6.0 810.5 0.1 23.6 1,028.8 2018, VII 2,885.3 3.7 859.8 0 29.9 1,001.8 2018, VIII 3,908.7 7.8 962.6 2.4 21.6 1,407.9 ------------ -------- ------- -------- ------- ------- ------- Total 26,811.3 43.3 7,900.1 43.5 142.1 9,017.2 ------------ -------- ------- -------- ------- ------- ------- 2017, I–VIII 23,533.3 41.1 13,767.0 0 77.0 7,654.2 trend, % +13.9 +5.5 -42.6 X +84.6 +17.8 -------------------------------------------------------------- The weighted average KZT/USD exchange rate calculated on all exchange deals for the period from January 3, 2018 to August 31, 2018, made KZT333.15 per US dollar. [2018-09-10]