Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Jan. 12
By Demir Azizov – Trend:
Trade turnover of Uzbekistan’s Tashkent Republican Stock Exchange amounted to 299.8 billion soums in 2016, as compared to 161 billion soums in 2015 (increase by 86.2 percent), the Tashkent Stock Exchange told Trend.
In total, 689.1 million securities (increase by 93 percent) were sold at the auctions of the Tashkent Stock Exchange in 2016.
The share of the primary market at the Tashkent Stock Exchange was 31.4 percent, as compared to 41.2 percent in 2015. Meanwhile, the turnover of the primary market of securities increased by 44.2 percent to 94.3 billion soums.
The share of the secondary market increased from 58.8 percent to 68.6 percent in 2015, while the turnover of the secondary market increased by almost 2.2 times – up to 205.5 billion soums.
The share of the industrial sector at the Tashkent Stock Exchange increased from 0.3 percent in 2015 to 24.6 percent in 2016, while the share of the agroindustrial complex was 5.4 percent in 2016, enterprises of the construction sphere – 1.2 percent.
The Tashkent Republican Stock Exchange was created in 1994.
($1=3243.89 soums on Jan. 12)