OREANDA-NEWS. On November 26, 2008 Agricultural credit corporation (Astana) informed Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) by the official letter that on October 31, 2008, the international rating agency Standard & Poor's confirmed the company ratings: the long-term "BB+"/forecast - negative/the short-term "B" by the international scale and "kzAA-" by the national scale, reported the press-centre of KASE.

In the same letter Agricultural credit corporation informed that ratings, assigned to the company bonds KZ2C0Y05C515 (KASE trading code - AGKKb1) and the loan issued by Dresdner Bank to the amount USD136.0 m., remain at the previous level: "BB+" by the international scale and "kzAA-" by the national scale.