Azerbaijan, Baku, April 2 / Trend /
In January-March, a total turnover of transactions on all instruments on Baku Stock Exchange made up 1.86 million manats which is by 11.47 percent lower than the same period in 2008. Some 94.07 percent of all transactions were carried out with government securities.
Principal decrease applies to the government securities market. Notes primary and secondary market down to 69.62 percent and 33.05 percent, respectively. Besides number of Repo transactions dropped to 7.18 percent and in general, government securities market went down by 15.64 percent.
Despite absence of transactions on corporate securities primary market and decrease of corporate bonds by 62.31 percent on secondary market, corporate securities market upped by 4.09 times.
The largest growth was registered on the secondary market of equities that increased more than 656 times. The primary market of equities grew by more than 5 times. It should be noted that in addition to the volumes the number of transactions considerably went up both on the secondary and primary markets of equities from 81 to 759 and from 49 to 118 respectively.
Besides growth of the exchange activity was observed in T-bills secondary market, i.e by 263 times.
Comparative table on the results of auctions on all instruments on the BSE
(January-March 2009)
|
Market segments |
2009 (31.03.09) |
2008 (31.03.08) |
Percentage ratio |
||
|
Volume of transactions, AZN |
Number of transactions |
Volume of transactions, AZN |
Number of transactions |
||
|
T-bills (AR MF) - (placement) |
103,927,382.68 |
55 |
58,348,907.54 |
55 |
178.11% |
|
T-bills (AR MF) - (secondary market) |
132,989,076.76 |
68 |
504,798.76 |
1 |
26344.97% |
|
Notes (AR NB) - (placement) |
161,951,666.04 |
73 |
533,123,194.26 |
182 |
30.38% |
|
Notes (AR NB) - (secondary market) |
64,784,623.64 |
35 |
96,766,261.86 |
90 |
66.95% |
|
Repo operations |
1,288,160,175.77 |
224 |
1,387,732,557.22 |
402 |
92.82% |
|
Total GS |
1,751,812,924.89 |
455 |
2,076,475,719.64 |
730 |
84.36% |
|
Corporate bonds- (placement) |
0.00 |
0 |
7,450,616.50 |
16 |
0.00% |
|
Corporate bonds - (secondary market) |
2,299,815.00 |
11 |
6,101,962.77 |
27 |
37.69% |
|
Stocks - (placement) |
79,516,887.00 |
118 |
13,410,500.00 |
49 |
592.94% |
|
Stocks - (secondary market) |
28,531,721.00 |
759 |
43,466.60 |
81 |
65640.56% |
|
Total CS |
110,348,423.00 |
888 |
27,006,545.87 |
173 |
408.60% |
Total |
1,862,161,347.89 |
1,343 |
2,103,482,265.51 |
903 |
88.53% |
Abridgement:
T-bills - treasury bills
AR MF - Azerbaijan Republic Ministry of Finance
AR NB - Azerbaijan Republic National Bank
GS - government securities
CS- corporate securities
On April 2, the official exchange rate is 0.8029 manat to $1.
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