OREANDA-NEWS. In January–May 2016 the volume of foreign currencies traded on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), including currency swaps transactions, reached KZT16,508.8 bn (equivalent to USD46,819.5 mln) and decreased by 50.1 % against the same period of 2015 (by 73.8 % in dollar terms).

In comparison with the previous five month period (August–December 2015) the volume of trades decreased by 36.7 % (by 51.3 % in dollar terms).

The table below shows indicators of the currency market in 2016 with a breakdown by month, currency and deal type and comparative data of 2015.
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                                                                          Trades volume
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                                    spot-market, m    swap-market, m                     
Year       -----------------------------------------------------------  total,   total, 
month      USD/KZT EUR/KZT EUR/USD RUB/KZT CNY/KZT   USD/KZT EUR/KZT   bn KZT     m USD
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2016, I	    2,322.2   2.0        0 1,021.5   4.9    13,029.2	   0  5,650.0  15,367.4
2016, II    2,386.3   1.7      1.5 1,646.0   6.6     7,501.7	   0  3,566.5	9,913.8
2016, III   2,960.5   2.4      0.2 1,029.6   4.5     4,363.5	   0  2,529.8	7,342.2
2016, IV    2,758.0   1.7      0.4 1,517.3   8.0     5,580.0	   0  2,819.3	8,364.4
2016, I-V   2,503.2   1.6	 0   744.6   6.4     3,314.5	   0  1,943.2	5,831.8
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Total	   12,930.0   9.4      2.1 5,959.0  30.3    33,788.9	   0 16,508.8  46,819.5
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2015, I-IV 23,308.1   6.6	 0 9,464.7  10.4   155,278.2	   0 33,060.0 178,755.9
trend, %      -44.5 +42.7   +100.0   -37.0+192.3       -78.2	   X	-50.1     -73.8
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