In August of 2003 volume of deals on GS purchase and sale at KASE increased by 10.8% to KZT28.3 bn

/IRBIS, September 2, 03/ - In August of 2003, in Kazakhstan Stock Exchange's (KASE) GS purchase and sale sector 296 deals for the total amount of KZT28,302.2 m ($192.7 m) were fixed, that was 5.3% of the whole exchange's monthly turnover. Last month number of deals, which was 316, didn't exceed KZT25,555.6 m ($174.0 m). During the month exchange's turnover in the sector increased by 10.75% in tenge and by 10.74% in dollars. Relative to August of 2002 the exchange's turnover increased 1.5 times (by KZT9,828.2 m). Statistical indicators of sale-purchase sector in August and turnover's structure are given in the table (in parentheses - comparable figures of previous month). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yield to maturity for the buyer, % APR. Days --------------------------------------- Volume, mln KZT Number till maturity min max last WA at discount of deals -------------- -------- ------- ------- -------------- ----------------- --------- Discounted GS (KZT): National Bank's notes 53.7% (65.3%) of purchase and sale sector's turnover ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- less than 8 1.82 7.00 5.48 4.30 (5.31) 1198.1 12 8 - 14 4.00 5.00 4.94 4.47 (4.53) 449.6 9 15 - 28 3.01 5.96 4.44 4.35 (4.56) 1288.5 22 29 - 36 3.98 4.78 4.78 4.48 (4.77) 247.9 6 37 - 42 4.80 5.18 4.80 4.95 (4.93) 173.0 3 43 - 56 5.00 5.58 5.58 5.07 (5.14) 624.6 9 57 - 63 3.20 5.03 3.20 4.97 (5.06) 266.7 4 64 - 91 4.74 6.16 5.27 5.08 (5.21) 2259.8 31 92 - 181 3.07 7.47 5.17 5.24 (5.31) 6039.5 50 182 - 364 1.74 6.04 4.95 5.16 (5.40) 2647.6 41 -------------- -------- ------- ------- -------------- ----------------- --------- Total 15195.4 (16694.1) 187 (229) -------------- -------- ------- ------- -------------- ----------------- --------- Coupon GS (KZT): MEOKAM, MEAKAM 34.5% (25.1%) of purchase and sale sector's turnover ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- less than 730 4.27 8.92 5.48 5.61 (5.13) 5339.7 32 731 - 1095 5.70 6.02 5.72 5.96 (6.24) 1615.9 19 1096 - 1460 5.93 7.54 7.54 6.32 (6.40) 532.4 13 1461 - 1825 6.09 6.68 6.09 6.26 (6.43) 2271.8 25 -------------- -------- ------- ------- -------------- ----------------- --------- Total 9759.8 (6407.4) 89 (64) -------------- -------- ------- ------- -------------- ----------------- --------- Coupon GS (USD): bonds of Astana city, East-Kazakhstani and Atyrau regions 11.0% (0.2) of purchase and sale sector's turnover ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- less than 730 5.02 5.58 5.58 5.36 ( -) 1383.1 4 -------------- -------- ------- ------- -------------- ----------------- --------- more than 1096 6.59 8.54 8.54 7.41 (8.38) 1722.5 6 -------------- -------- ------- ------- -------------- ----------------- --------- Total 3105.6 (44.9) 10 (2) -------------- -------- ------- ------- -------------- ----------------- --------- Euronotes of Kazakhstan (USD) 0.9% (9.4%) of purchase and sale sector's turnover ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *409 - 430 2.25 2.58 2.49 2.43 (2.71) 6.9 4 **1332 - 1355 3.34 3.55 3.65 3.54 (3.62) 234.6 6 -------------- -------- ------- ------- -------------- ----------------- --------- Total 241.5 (2409.2) 10 (21) -------------- -------- ------- ------- -------------- ----------------- --------- GRANDTOTAL 28302.2 (25555.6) 296 (316) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes: for euronotes (* - third issue, ** - fourth issue) volumes were calculated at weighted average USD/KZT rate of the Exchange. In August the share of the Exchange's turnover in total volume of the deals made on the Kazakhstan secondary market of GS rose to 63.4%, in July it was 67.0%. [2003-09-02]