In March of 2003 volume of CS deals at KASE increased by 49.4% to $41.6 m relative to February

/IRBIS, April 1, 03/ - In March of 2003 at the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) 123 deals were made in corporate securities in all sectors of the market (excluding repo-transactions sector) for a total of KZT6.3 bn or $41.6 m at current rate of the Exchange effective on the day the deals were made. In comparison with February of 2003 volume of transactions increased by $13.8 m (KZT2.0 bn) or 49.4% (by 47.5% in tenge). Relative to March of 2002 volume of transactions rose by $15,043.5 th. (KZT2,263.8 m) or 1.57 times (1.56 times in tenge). IRBIS agency pays attention that before in this statistic section CS repo transactions were taken into account. Now this type of deals will be in money market's sector, which will be in separate statistic section. Structure of CS turnover at KASE in March is presented in the following form: 96.8% of the volume of all conducted deals ($40,293.8 th.) fell to the share of transactions of purchase and sale sector, to the share of transactions in primary floatation sector - 3.2% ($1,331.1 th.). In SBS sector no deals were made. For comparison, the structure of stock exchange's CS sector in 2002 was characterized by the following indicators: 5.5% of transactions volume fell to the share of primary floatations; to the share of SBS - 33.1%; to the share of purchase and sale sector - 61.4%. Following are the tables, which show stock exchange's CS market in March of 2003. Most tradable securities at the KASE in March of 2003 (purchase and sale only, excluding primary floatation and repo) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Code Volume of Volume of Volume of Number of deals, deals, deals in of security Brief title of the issuer th. USD m, KZT securities deals -------- ----------------------------------- --------- --------- ----------- ------ CCBN Bank CenterCredit OJSC 7,633.89 1,155.63 5,575,125 16 BRKZb1 Development bank of Kazakhstan CJSC 6,002.74 912.89 891,400 7 CHFM Khimfarm OJSC 5,349.68 809.58 4,257,126 3 KZTOe1 KazTransOIl CJSC 4,324.77 656.88 4,086,000 10 KKGBb2 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC 3,598.35 544.15 3,828 2 BTAS Bank TuranAlem OJSC 1,689.80 256.87 17,898 2 KZTKb1 Kazakhtelecom 1,360.76 206.12 13,250 3 VTBNb1 VALUT-TRANZIT BANK OJSC 1,110.38 168.07 11,100 2 VTBNp VALUT-TRANZIT BANK OJSC 1,098.65 166.59 403,034 7 ASBNb1 Alliance Bank OJSC 1,012.19 153.31 154,300,000 8 HSBKb Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC 959.90 145.42 8,780 1 KZMS Corporation Kazakhmys OJSC 711.75 107.58 11,908 3 ALKS Almaty Kus OJSC 638.53 96.63 7,218,785 12 BTASe2 TuranAlem Finance B.V. 590.07 89.58 530,000 1 SYRGb1 HOP OJSC 529.50 80.03 5,330 1 KARMb1 Karazhanbasmunai OJSC 400.52 60.83 3,880 4 ALKSb2 Almaty Kus OJSC 391.72 59.54 4,010 1 UTMK UKTMC OJSC 378.37 57.19 13,300 1 ZERD Zerde OJSC 336.49 51.17 34,458,060 2 CSBNb1 BANK CASPIAN OJSC 328.38 49.91 3,250 2 ALKSp Almaty Kus OJSC 294.00 44.71 3,693,599 2 KKGBe2 KAZKOMMERTSBANK OJSC 274.50 41.72 270,000 3 KZTOb KazTransOil CJSC 268.55 40.65 2,530 3 ASFIb1 Astana-finance OJSC 264.20 40.03 2,610 1 BTASe1 TuranAlem Finance B.V. 195.24 29.53 180,400 3 UTMKp UKTMC OJSC 184.92 27.95 5,291 5 NRBNb1 Nurbank OJSC 142.64 21.54 21,400 3 TXBNb1 TEXAKABANK OJSC 93.58 14.13 14,000 3 SMGZb1 SHAKHARMUNAIGAS OJSC 40.50 6.15 450 2 ASFIb2 Astana-finance OJSC 39.54 6.01 62,000 2 ATFBb2 AMB OJSC 24.52 3.73 230 1 BTASb1 Bank TuranAlem OJSC 10.96 1.66 100 1 HSBK Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC 5.50 0.84 7,697 1 TEBN TEMIRBANK OJSC 3.36 0.51 534 1 AMGZ SNPS-Aktobemunaigas OJSC 2.67 0.40 100 1 VITAb3 VITA OJSC 2.64 0.40 4,000 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments: The securities were sorted in descending order based on the volumes of deals expressed in U.S. dollars. Small letters in the securities codes have the following meanings: "p" - preferred inscribed share; "b" - bond: "e" - eurobond; the rest - common inscribed share. The figure shows the number of the bond issue. If there is no figure (old code) it implies that it is the first issue. Table of main indicators of the stock exchange's CS market in March of 2003 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Capitaliza- Capitaliza- tion tion Bond value of the of the index, Volume share bonds Bonds including of market, Share market, yield accum deals, Date m, USD index m, USD index interest th. USD ---------- ----------- -------- ----------- ------- ---------- ------- Feb 28, 03 1,377.2 127.8409 1,243.389 8.2437 137.0381 411.1 Mar 3, 03 1,338.7 125.6328 1,242.956 8.2147 137.1799 675.5 Mar 4, 3 1,305.6 124.0728 1,243.280 8.2239 137.1864 2,013.1 Mar 5, 03 1,339.3 122.7008 1,240.543 8.2359 137.1683 4,741.0 Mar 6, 03 1,291.7 122.7895 1,240.698 8.2258 137.2328 3,393.3 Mar 7, 03 2,003.8 122.8024 1,240.072 8.2510 137.1724 4,855.4 Mar 11, 03 2,004.2 122.0039 1,240.109 8.2227 137.3889 317.7 Mar 12, 03 1,305.5 121.9222 1,240.462 8.2403 137.3528 2,497.4 Mar 13, 03 1,306.5 121.8939 1,237.464 8.3144 137.1254 871.1 Mar 14, 03 1,308.5 121.8291 1,237.486 8.3357 137.1194 1,061.0 Mar 17, 03 1,309.5 121.6988 1,237.752 8.2628 137.4551 41.4 Mar 18, 03 1,309.5 122.0056 1,237.740 8.2843 137.4107 1.9 Mar 19, 03 1,315.4 122.0068 1,237.280 8.2760 137.4649 3,214.2 Mar 20, 03 1,312.0 122.0964 1,234.797 8.2321 137.7220 2,034.1 Mar 21, 03 1,309.5 122.3366 1,235.331 8.2047 137.7651 3,196.4 Mar 25, 03 1,312.1 117.7778 1,235.827 8.2584 137.6779 0 Mar 26, 03 1,301.8 117.9868 1,234.793 8.2406 137.7610 39.0 Mar 27, 03 1,304.8 117.7900 1,235.279 8.3253 137.5794 5,525.3 Mar 28, 03 1,304.6 117.5840 1,232.820 8.2997 137.6367 3,880.5 Mar 31, 03 1,302.4 117.7218 1,234.002 8.2917 137.6891 3,266.5 ---------- ----------- -------- ----------- ------- ---------- ------- Trend -74.8 -10.1191 -9.387 +0.0480 +0.6510 , -5.43% -7.92% -0.75% +0.58% +0.48% , ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments: The shares index (KASE_Shares) reflects the changes in the bids on the shares from the official Exchange's securities list of "A" category, including the market capitalization of their issuers. The capitalization of the bond market - indicator that reflects the volume of corporate debt circulating on the KASE as the bonds of the companies. It is calculated on the basis of the number of issued bonds and the bonds admitted to the trades and their market values. In case of the absence of the last figure, face value is used instead. Capitalization of the shares market - indicator that reflects the market capitalization of the companies whose shares were entered into official list of the KASE securities. It is calculated on the basis of the number of issued shares and their last market values. In case of the absence of the deals the face values of the securities, expressed in U.S. dollars (if necessary) at the rate of the Exchange for the current day, are used. Bonds yield index (KASE_BY) - weighted average (through capitalization) yield of the corporate bonds of category "A" of the KASE official list, which is calculated based on the deals or average bids of the market-makers (if there is no deal). Index of bonds yield with accumulated interest (KASE_BP) - weighted average (through capitalization) "dirty" price of the corporate bonds of category "A" of the KASE official list, which is calculated based on the deals or average bids of the market-makers (if there is no deal). Purchase-sale deals volume includes the deals made in state blocks of shares and volume of primary floatations at KASE's specialized trades but it doesn't take into account repo transactions. [2003-04-01]