Trading volume on Kazakh Stock Exchange grows
The volume of currency trading on KASE, including currency swap transactions, amounted to 44.510 trillion tenge ($ 237.760 billion) in the reporting period and increased by 2.3 times in comparison with the similar period of 2014 (a 2.2 times increase in dollar terms).
Compared with May-December 2014, the volume of currency trading at KASE has increased by 90.1 percent (85 percent in US dollar terms).
The volume of trading in government securities at KASE for the first eight months of this year amounted to 396.5 billion tenge ($2.143 billion) and decreased by 38.1 percent compared to the same period in 2014 (a 40.2 percent decrease in US dollar terms).
The trading volume at KASE in January-August 2015 amounted to 869.2 billion tenge ($4.633 billion) and increased by 28 times in comparison with the similar period of 2014 (a 26 times increase in dollar terms).
The volume of trades in corporate bonds at the stock exchange in the reporting period amounted to 669.6 billion tenge ($3.574 billion) and increased by 7 times in comparison with the same period last year.
The volume of trades on the market of repo operations of the Kazakh Stock Exchange amounted to 12.499 trillion tenge ($ 66.682 billion) and increased twice in comparison with the same period last year.