Last week two trades were closed on the listing board of the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE). The first trade was for 11,000 preferred shares in AktobeMunaiGas (AMGZp). The package was sold at KZT 5,148,000 (US $66,000.). The other trade was made for common shares in Kazkommertsbank (KKGB): 2,301 shares were sold at KZT184,080 with the same per share price of KZT80.0 (US $1.03) as last week. On the non-listing board under the Quotation Trade System (QTS), common shares in the Almaty company Etalon continued in demand. Forty shares were sold in two transactions with a per share value of KZT79,100 (US $1,014).

On the OTC market, not covered by the QTS, preferred shares of AktobeMunaiGas took the lead in terms of traded volume—some US$179,167 between August 20^th and August 27^th . The KS index was fluctuating around the 106 level last week, but dropped to 96.59 on August 27^th.