In January–July 2019 amount of corporate bond trading on KASE increased 4.0 times to KZT1.8 trln

/KASE, August 12, 2019/ – In January–July 2019 the amount of trading in corporate bonds on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) made up KZT1,825.6 bn increasing 4.0 times YoY. In comparison with the previous seven-month period (June–December) of 2018, the trading volume decreased by 9.9 %. The table below shows the trades amount (bn tenge) in said sector of the exchange market in 2019, and comparative data of 2018 (in the secondary market sector bond offering deals are possible). --------------------------------------------------- Month Primary market Secondary market Total* ----------- -------------- ---------------- ------- 2019, I 6.0 214.4 220.4 2019, II 641.9 306.3 948.1 2019, III 87.7 5.1 92.8 2019, IV 19.8 23.5 43.3 2019, V 21.4 26.2 47.6 2019, VI 160.3 92.3 252.6 2019, VII 203.1 17.7 220.8 ----------- -------------- ---------------- ------- Total 1,140.1 685.5 1,825.6 ----------- -------------- ---------------- ------- 2018, I–VII 177.7 277.2 454.9 trend, % +541.6 +147.2 +301.3 --------------------------------------------------- * excluding the repo market transactions deals [2019-08-12]