Kazakh Stock Exchange sees fall in urrency trading volume
The volume of foreign currency trading on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), including currency swap operations, decreased by 46.8 percent and amounted to 19.33 trillion Kazakh tenges ($55.18 billion) in January-June 2016, as compared to the same period of 2015, th KASE reported.
In total, trading volume on KASE amounted to 49.23 trillion tenges in January-June 2016, which is by 3.1 percent more than in the same period of 2015.
Meanwhile, the volume of stock trading increased by 64.4 percent – to $80.4 billion tenges ($237.4 million) during the reporting period.
Trading volume of public securities on KASE totaled 334 billion tenges ($950.3 million) in January-June 2016, which is by 14.9 percent more than in the same period 2015.
Trading volume of corporate bonds at KASE decreased by 57.5 percent and totaled 191.8 billion tenges ($569.9 million) in January-June 2016 as compared to the same period of 2015.
The trade volume on repo operations (repurchase) market at KASE increased by 2.8 times and totaled 29.3 trillion tenges ($685.39 billion) during the reporting period, as compared to January-June 2015.
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