In January–April 2020 amount of trading in foreign currencies on KASE increased by 16.5 % to KZT3.9 trln

/KASE, May 20, 2020/ – In January–April 2020, the amount of trading in the foreign currencies spot market of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) made up KZT3,914.3 bn increasing by 16.5 % YoY. Compared with the preceding four-month period (September–December) of 2019 the trading volume increased by 14.5 %. Below is the table of indicators of KASE's foreign currency spot market in 2020 with the breakdown by currency pairs (in mln units of the first currency out of those specified in the pairs), and comparative data of 2019. ---------------------------------------------------------- Trading volume Year, --------------------------------------- Total, month USD/KZT EUR/KZT RUB/KZT EUR/USD CNY/KZT bn KZT ---------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- 2020, I 2,370.9 5.7 365.4 0 54.6 905.2 ---------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- 2020, II 2,097.7 3.5 396.2 0 18.7 797.8 ---------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- 2020, III 3,455.3 2.1 4,818.2 0.3 43.5 1,462.2 ---------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- 2020, IV 1,721.4 1.3 256.1 0.6 30.2 749.1 ---------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- Total 9,645.2 12.7 5,835.8 0.9 146.9 3,914.3 ---------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- 2019, I-IV 8,818.7 20.9 2,230.4 0 108.9 3,360.1 trend, % +9.4 -39.4 +161.6 X +35.0 +16.5 ---------------------------------------------------------- The weighted average KZT/USD exchange rate calculated on all exchange deals for the period from January 5, 2020 to April 30, 2020, made KZT400.94 per US dollar. [2020-05-20]