In 2004 volume of foreign exchange transactions at KASE reached $9,449.5 m. and grew in terms of dollar by 47.3%

/IRBIS, Sergey Yakovlev, January 5, 05/ - In 2004 total volume of foreign exchange transactions concluded at the Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) reached the equivalent of $9,449.5 m. and has increased by $3,036.0 m. or by 47.3% in terms of dollar relative to similar period of last year. In tenge equivalent the turnover has increased from 954.0 bn. in 2003 to 1,270.4 bn. or by 33.2% in 2004. Following is the table with the volumes of foreign exchange transactions at KASE in 2004 grouped by months and types of currencies. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Volume of volume of trades, th. units equivalent: --------------------------- ------------------------ Month USD EUR RUB m. KZT th. USD ------------ --------- ------- ------- ----------- ----------- January 657,515 400 0 92,664.1 658,030.2 February 490,980 200 200 68,361.0 491,242.5 March 534,795 150 0 74,327.9 534,978.6 April 546 140 0 0 75,450.6 546,140.0 May 576,065 16,115 6,500 81,697.2 595,872.7 June 536,645 24,230 23,100 77,289.0 567,145.0 July 497,735 475 18,000 67,661.8 498,943.3 August 430,480 25 14,400 58,664.4 431,002.3 September 593,555 1,550 10,500 80,536.2 595,762.0 October 1,163,175 750 12,300 154,772.7 1 164 528.3 November 1,780,340 3,000 21,000 233,420.2 1,785,045.1 December 1,508,965 53,415 11,500 205,519.2 1,580,797.7 ------------ --------- ------- ------- ----------- ----------- Total 9,316,390 100,310 117,500 1,270,364.1 9,449,487.8 ------------ --------- ------- ------- ----------- ----------- 2003 6,405,465 5,945 27,700 953,972.4 6,413,441.4 trend, times 1.45 16.87 4.24 1.33 1.47 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Weighted average market rate of tenge to U.S. dollar calculated by IRBIS over all deals of the main (morning) session of KASE for the period from January 1, 04 till December 31, 04, equaled to KZT134.19 per dollar, over all stock exchange's deals - KZT134.46 per dollar. Judging on changing of weighted average exchange's rate, tenge has strengthened against dollar in nominal expression by 9.30%. Corresponding indicator of 2003 was 8.03%. [2005-01-05]