/KASE, April 4, 12/ - In January - March 2012, the trades volume on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) in all market sectors made up KZT5,942.3 bn (KZT40,123.6 m) and decreased against the similar 2011 period by 13.6% (14.6 % in USD).

In comparison with the previous three month month period (October-December 2011) the trades volume decreased by 14.9 % (15.0 % in USD).

The table below shows the trades volume (calculated by amounts raised) for initial nine months of 2012 by market sector and comparison with indicators of the same period of 2011.

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                         I-III, 2012      I-III, 2011            Trend
                    ---------------- ---------------- ----------------                 
Market              trades   struc-  trades   struc-  measuring in %
sector              volume   ture, % volume   ture, % currency
------------------- -------- ------- -------- ------- --------- ------
bn KZT
------------------- -------- ------- -------- ------- --------- ------
Foreign currency     2,921.6    49.2  4,103.5    59.7  -1,181.9  -28.8
including:
spot-market          1,978.0    33.3  3,264.5    47.5  -1,286.5  -39.4
swap-market            943.7    15.9    839.0    12.2    +104.6  +12.5
------------------- -------- ------- -------- ------- --------- ------
Kazakhstan GS          261.0     4.4    273.0     4.0     -11.9   -4.4
including:
primary market         190.8     3.2    151.0     2.2     +39.8  +26.4
secondary market        70.2     1.2    122.0     1.8     -51.7  -42.4
------------------- -------- ------- -------- ------- --------- ------
Shares                  15.2     0.3     91.2     1.3     -76.0  -83.3
------------------- -------- ------- -------- ------- --------- ------
Corporate debt          76.8     1.3     73.5     1.1      +3.3   +4.5
securities
------------------- -------- ------- -------- ------- --------- ------
Repo transactions:   2,667.7    44.9  2,337.4    34.0    +330.2  +14.1
including:
"nego" repo on GS          0       0        0       0         0      X
autorepo on GS       2,653.6    44.7  2,320.6    33.7    +332.9  +14.3
"nego" repo on CS        1.4       0      0.7       0      +0.7 +109.2
autorepo on CS          12.7     0.2     16.1     0.2      -3.4  -21.4
------------------- -------- ------- -------- ------- --------- ------
Bonds of IFO               0       0        0    <0.1         0      X
------------------- -------- ------- -------- ------- --------- ------
Total trades volume  5,942.3   100.0  6,878.6   100.0    -936.3  -13.6
------------------- -------- ------- -------- ------- --------- ------
mln USD                    ,       ,        ,       ,         ,      ,
------------------- -------- ------- -------- ------- --------- ------
Foreign currency    19,730.7    49.2 28,041.3    59.7  -8,310.6  -29.6
including:
spot-market         13,358.7    33.3 22,310.0    47.5  -8,951.3  -40.1
swap-market          6,372.0    15.9  5,731.3    12.2    +640.7  +11.2
------------------- -------- ------- -------- ------- --------- ------
Kazakhstan GS        1,764.0     4.4  1,869.5     4.0    -105.5   -5.6
including:
primary market       1,289.1     3.2  1,034.6     2.2    +254.5  +24.6
secondary market       474.9     1.2    834.9     1.8    -360.0  -43.1
------------------- -------- ------- -------- ------- --------- ------
Shares                 102.6     0.3    625.2     1.3    -522.5  -83.6
------------------- -------- ------- -------- ------- --------- ------
Corporate debt         518.0     1.3    502.3     1.1     +15.7   +3.1
securities
------------------- -------- ------- -------- ------- --------- ------
Repo transactions:  18,008.2    44.9 15,966.8    34.0  +2,041.5  +12.8
including:
"nego" repo on GS          0       0        0       0         0      X
autorepo on GS      17,913.0    44.6 15,852.1    33.7  +2,060.9  +13.0
"nego" repo on CS        9.6       0      4.7       0      +5.0 +107.4
autorepo on CS          85.5     0.2    110.0     0.2     -24.5  -22.2
------------------- -------- ------- -------- ------- --------- ------
Bonds of IFO               0       0        0    <0.1         0      X
------------------- -------- ------- -------- ------- --------- ------
Total trades volume 40,123.6   100.0 47,005.1   100.0  -6,881.5  -14.6
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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.

[2012-04-04]