Investments of Kazakhstan pension funds: common shares of The Walt Disney Company (USA)

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/IRBIS, Yelena Korpusenko, May 17, 04/ - Common shares of The Walt Disney Company (500 South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, CA 91521, USA; www.disney.go.com) were included in the register of securities, purchased by Kazakhstan pension market's subjects. ISIN of share - US2546871060, leading stock exchange - NYSE, (trade code - DIS). Shares' current price at NYSE - $23.24 (May 14 of 2004, closing). Within last 52 weeks maximum price of the shares was fixed at NYSE on February 12, 04 at $28.41; minimum price (May 21, 03) was $17.45. The Walt Disney Company is the company organizing entertainment, it operates mass media. The company renders cable TV services and Internet services, it publishes books and journals, owns theme parks, TV and radio broadcast. The Walt Disney Company has long-term credit rating on senior unsecured debt in foreign currency "Baa1" (October 18, 02) and short-term rating of commercial securities in domestic currency "Р-2" (November 29, 01) with stable outlook assigned by Moody's Investors Service; issuer rating BBB+/Negative/A-2 (October 4, 02) assigned by Standard & Poor's., long- term "BBB+" with negative outlook and short-term "F2" (September 15, 03) assigned by Fitch Ratings Ltd. Information about the current prices of these shares is available at http://www.nyse.com by the mentioned trade code. The presented information about credit ratings is published in rating agencies' electronic representatives in the Internet. During preparing of this block mainly information of Bloomberg agency was used. [2004-05-17]