In December of 2003 volume of all transactions at KASE increased by 57.3% and reached equivalent of $4,374.7 m.

/IRBIS, Sergey Yakovlev, Andrey Tsalyuk, January 12, 04/ - In December of 2003 volume of all transactions at Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) increased in dollar equivalent in comparison with previous month by 57.3% to $4,374.7 m. In terms of tenge there is an increase of monthly turnover by 55.2% to 634.4 bn. The reached volume is the highest record for the whole past history of KASE. Previous record ($3,666.0 m or KZT539.3 bn) was registered in August of 2003. Relative to December of 2002 the volume of stock exchange's transactions increased by 24.7% in dollar equivalent and by 16.1% in tenge equivalent. Comparative data of turnover at KASE and its structure for December and November of 2003 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- December - 2003: November-2003: Trend: ---------------- -------------- --------------- Market's sector volume % volume % volume % ------------------------- -------- ------ ------- ----- ------- ------ m. US dollars ------------------------- -------- ------ ------- ----- ------- ------ Foreign currencies sector 1,082.7 24.7 404.4 14.5 +678.3 +167.7 Futures contracts sector 495.1 11.3 56.0 2.0 +439.1 +784.1 GS sector* 498.2 11.4 155.7 5.6 +342.5 +219.9 CS sector* 206.6 4.7 105.3 3.8 +101.2 +96.1 REPO (CS and GS) total 2,092.2 47.8 2,058.9 74.1 +33.3 +1.6 inc. direct repo on GS 247.1 5.6 230.3 8.3 +16.7 +7.3 inc. autorepo on GS 1,790.0 40.8 1,796.4 64.6 -6.5 -0.4 inc. direct repo on CS 35.7 0.8 17.0 0.6 +18.6 +109.3 inc. autorepo on CS 19.4 0.4 15.1 0.5 +4.4 +29.0 Promissory notes sector 0 0 0 0 0 0 ------------------------- -------- ------ ------- ----- ------- ------ TOTAL 4,374.7 100.0 2,780.3 100.0 +1594.4 +57.3 ------------------------- -------- ------ ------- ----- ------- ------ bn. KZT ------------------------- -------- ------ ------- ----- ------- ------ Foreign currencies sector 156.7 24.7 59.4 14.5 +97.2 +163.5 Futures contracts sector 72.2 11.4 8.2 2.0 +63.9 +777.3 GS sector* 72.3 11.4 22.8 5.6 +49.5 +216.5 CS sector* 30.0 4.7 15.5 3.8 +14.5 +93.9 REPO (CS and GS) total 303.2 47.8 302.7 74.1 +0.5 +0.2 inc. direct repo on GS 35.8 5.6 33.8 8.3 +1.9 +5.7 inc. autorepo on GS 259.5 40.9 264.2 64.6 -4.7 -1.8 inc. direct repo on CS 5.2 0.8 2.5 0.6 +2.7 +106.4 inc. autorepo on CS 2.8 0.4 2.2 0.5 +0.6 +27.3 Promissory notes sector 0 0 0 0 0 0 ------------------------- -------- ------ ------- ----- ------- ------ TOTAL 634.4 100.0 408.7 100.0 +225.7 +55.2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The shown data gives evidence about the significant changing of the structure of stock exchange's market turnover in December relative to November, which had occurred mainly due to rapid increase of volume and share of foreign exchange and futures transactions. At the same time repo sector had been experiencing some troubles and from the moment of its launching it demonstrated the lowest marginal increase of the turnover relative to other KASE's floors for the first time. [2004-01-12]