/KASE, September 3, 10/ - In eight months of 2010 the trades volume on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) in all market sectors made up KZT19,146.7 bn (USD130,019.0 m) and increased relative to the similar period of 2009 by 27.4 % (24.6 % in USD).

In comparison with the previous eight month period (May-December of 2009) the trades volume increased by 35.7 % (38.4 % in USD).

The table below shows the trades volume (calculated by amounts raised) for initial 8 months of 2010 by market sector and comparison with indicators of the same period of 2009.

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                         I-VIII, 2010      I-VIII, 2009            Trend
                    --------- ------- --------- ------- --------- ------
Market              trades    struc-  trades    struc-  measuring in %
sector              volume    ture, % volume    ture, % currency
------------------- --------- ------- --------- ------- --------- ------
bn KZT
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Foreign currency      9,461.0    49.4   6,178.4    41.1  +3,282.5  +53.1
including:
spot-market           6,572.6    34.3   4,874.3    32.4  +1,698.3  +34.8
swap-market           2,888.4    15.1   1,304.2     8.7  +1,584.2 +121.5
------------------- --------- ------- --------- ------- --------- ------
Futures contracts           0       0       0.1   <0.01         X      X
------------------- --------- ------- --------- ------- --------- ------
Kazakhstan GS           989.9     5.2     833.8     5.5    +156.1  +18.7
including:
primary market          480.6     2.5     403.3     2.7     +77.3  +19.2
secondary market        509.3     2.7     430.5     2.9     +78.8  +18.3
------------------- --------- ------- --------- ------- --------- ------
Shares                   49.2     0.3     175.6     1.2    -126.5  -72.0
------------------- --------- ------- --------- ------- --------- ------
Unit Investment             0       0       0.1    <0.1      -0.1 -100.0
Funds shares
------------------- --------- ------- --------- ------- --------- ------
Corporate debt          107.2     0.6     285.2     1.9    -178.0  -62.4
securities
------------------- --------- ------- --------- ------- --------- ------
Repo transactions:    8,539.4    44.6   7,559.4    50.3    +980.1  +13.0
including:
"nego" repo on GS        56.3     0.3      84.1     0.6     -27.8  -33.1
autorepo on GS        8,400.8    43.9   6,230.1    41.4  +2,170.8   34.8
"nego" repo on CS         5.7    <0.1     690.9     4.6    -685.2  -99.2
autorepo on CS           76.6     0.4     554.3     3.7    -477.7  -86.2
------------------- --------- ------- --------- ------- --------- ------
TOTAL trades volume  19,146.7   100.0  15,032.5   100.0  +4,114.2  +27.4
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M USD                       ,       ,         ,       ,         ,      ,
------------------- --------- ------- --------- ------- --------- ------
Foreign currency     64,235.3    49.4  43,035.0    41.2 +21,200.3  +49.3
including:
spot-market          44,628.0    34.3  34,358.2    32.9 +10,269.8  +29.9
swap-market          19,607.3    15.1   8,676.8     8.3 +10,930.5 +126.0
------------------- --------- ------- --------- ------- --------- ------
Futures contracts           0       0       0.4   <0.01         X      X
------------------- --------- ------- --------- ------- --------- ------
Kazakhstan GS         6,721.7     5.2   5,609.9     5.4  +1,111.9  +19.8
including:
primary market        3,263.4     2.5   2,692.7     2.6    +570.7   21.2
secondary market      3,458.3     2.7   2,917.2     2.8    +541.2  +18.6
------------------- --------- ------- --------- ------- --------- ------
Shares                  334.1     0.3   1,201.7     1.2    -867.6  -72.2
------------------- --------- ------- --------- ------- --------- ------
Unit Investment             0       0       0.7    <0.1      -0.7 -100.0
Funds shares
------------------- --------- ------- --------- ------- --------- ------
Corporate debt          727.8     0.6   1,965.3     1.9  -1,237.6  -63.0
securities
------------------- --------- ------- --------- ------- --------- ------
Repo transactions:   58,000.1    44.6  52,545.5    50.4  +5,454.6  +10.4
including:
"nego" repo on GS       382.5     0.3     567.7     0.5    -185.2  -32.6
autorepo on GS       57,058.8    43.9  43,291.9    41.5 +13,767.0  +31.8
"nego" repo on CS        38.6    <0.1   4,750.2     4.6  -4,711.6  -99.2
autorepo on CS          520.1     0.4   3,935.7     3.8  -3,415.5  -86.8
------------------- --------- ------- --------- ------- --------- ------
TOTAL trades volume 130,019.0   100.0 104,357.8   100.0 +25,661.2  +24.6
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Notes to table: GS - government serial securities; CS - corporate serial
securities; corporate bonds - corporate serial debt securities; Equities - 
equity securities certifying the right of its holder for a certain share 
in the property; "direct" repo - repo transactions carried out by "direct" 
method (with conclusion of direct opening and closing repo deals); auto 
repo - repo transactions carried out automatically; 'n/t' - no trade held. 
Currency swap transactions and repo exchange additionally provides (calculated) 
turnover (calculated based on all executed opening and closing deals), which is 
not accounted for in indicator "TOTAL trade volume", in aggregate indicator 
for exchange market sector and in indicator "including". Trade volume and 
exchange (calculated) turnovers are calculated on all executed exchange deals, 
concluded by any possible KASE trade method. Information on securities (bonds)
of IFO, FGS, notes and futures is not provided due to absence of deals in such 
instruments in the compared periods.

[2010-09-03]