Kazakh Stock Exchange sees fall in currency trading volume
The volume of foreign currency trading on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), including currency swap operations, decreased by 49.9 percent to 14.57 trillion Kazakh tenges ($40.99 billion) in January-April 2016, as compared to the same period of 2015, said the message on KASE website.
In total, trading volume on KASE amounted to 33.2 trillion tenges ($94.44 billion) in January-April 2016, which is by 12.8 percent less than in the same period of 2015.
Trading volume of public securities on KASE amounted to 286.9 billion tenges ($809.5 million) in January-April 2016, which is by 1.1 percent less than in the same period 2015.
Volume of share trades on KASE during the reporting period totaled 39.2 billion tenges ($114.6 million), twice as much as in January-April 2015.
Trading volume of corporate bonds at KASE decreased by 78.4 percent and totaled 68.6 billion tenges ($202.2 million) in January-April 2016 as compared to the same period of 2015.
The trade volume on repo operations (repurchase) market at KASE increased by 2.2 times and totaled 18.24 trillion tenges ($52.32 billion) during the reporting period, as compared to January-April 2015.
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