In 2004 volume of CS purchase and sale transactions at KASE reached $1,830.0 m. and increased 1.8 times

/IRBIS, Assel Omarova, January 6, 05/ - In 2004 volume of purchase and sale transactions in corporate securities (CS), which were made at Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE), including primary floatations and trade in state blocks of shares (SBS), reached the equivalent of $1,830.0 m., (KZT248.0 bn.) and compared to similar period of last year increased by $804.8 m., (KZT95.3 bn.) or 1.79 times (1.62 times in tenge equivalent). In 2003 volume of CS purchase and sale transactions at KASE was equivalent of USD1,025.2 m or KZT152.7 bn. Following is the table of volumes of deals in CS made at KASE in 2004 grouped by months, as well as structure of the turnover and comparable data of 2003 (th. USD). ----------------------------------------------------------- Sector of the Exchange CS market ---------------------------------- secondary market primary ----------------------- Month floatation SBS purchase-sale Total ------------ ---------- --------- ------------- ----------- January 27,029.0 9,451.2 91,752.9 128,233.1 February 0 0 74,581.9 74,581.9 March 13,524.0 0 81,375.7 94,899.7 April 5,250.8 0 57,351.4 62,602.2 May 5,617.7 0 270,142.4 275,760.1 June 4,500.7 0 136,169.5 140,670.2 July 35,580.9 0 118,177.1 153,758.0 August 10,559.7 0 223,500.4 234,060.1 September 9,570.2 0 191,580.8 201,151.0 October 6,680.6 0 152,484.9 159,165.6 November 3,216.2 0 122,648.4 125,864.5 December 34,750.9 956.5 143,543.0 179,250.4 ------------ ---------- --------- ------------- ----------- Total 156,280.7 10,407.7 1,663,308.3 1,829,996.7 ------------ ---------- --------- ------------- ----------- 2003 96,350.9 150,161.5 778,660.1 1,025,172.5 Trend, times 1.62 0.07 2.14 1.79 ----------------------------------------------------------- SBS - sector of state blocks of shares sale. [2005-01-06]