Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. 7
By Elena Kosolapova – Trend:
Stock trading at the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) increased by 3.7 times to 17.8 billion tenges (4.1 times increase in USD terms to $54.7 million) in January-February 2017 as compared to the same period of 2016, KASE reported.
Public securities trading at KASE totaled 219.5 billion tenges in January-February 2017, which is 13.5 percent more than in the same period of 2016.
In USD terms, public securities trading increased by 27.7 percent to $678.3 million in the reporting period.
Corporate bond trading at KASE decreased by 26.4 percent and totaled 7.4 billion tenges in January-February 2017 as compared to the same period of 2016.
In USD terms, corporate bond trading decreased by 17.4 percent to $22.6 million in this period.
Repo operations at KASE increased by 62.3 percent and totaled 11.45 trillion tenges during the reporting period, as compared to January-February 2016.
In USD equivalent, repo operations increased by 81.1 percent to $35.28 billion.