OREANDA-NEWS. March 28, 2012. Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) in accordance with its internal document "Methodology of Securities Liquidity Indicators Defining" (Methodology) composed lists of shares of the first, second and third classes of liquidity for April-May 2012 out of shares admitted to circulation at KASE, reported the press-centre of KASE.

Those lists were approved by March 26, 2012 decision of the Committee on Indices and Securities Valuation and had been composed for the purpose of applying of regulations of KASE internal documents "Regulations of Trades and the Confirmation System Operation" and "Rules of Market-Makers Activities" to shares contained therein.

As was announced earlier, from January 23, 2012 changes # 2 are put into effect, which in particular, define the procedure of composing lists of securities of different liquidity classes (in the previous edition of the Methodology, securities were split up not by liquidity classes, but into lists of liquid and illiquid shares).

Below is the list of shares of the first class of liquidity, effective from April 1 to May 31, 2012 (securities' titles are indicated in the descending order of their liquidity):

1. common shares KZ1C12280018 (KZ0009093241, KASE official list, first category, KZTK) of Kazakhtelecom;

2. common shares KZ1C33870011 (KZ000A0LE0S4, KASE official list, first category, HSBK) of Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan;

3. preferred shares KZ1P12280114 (KZ0009094645, KASE official list, first category, KZTKp) of Kazakhtelecom;

4. common shares KZ1C51460018 (KZ000A0KEZQ2, KASE official list, first category, RDGZ) of KazMunaiGas Exploration Production;

5. preferred shares KZ1P51460114 (KZ000A0RMTC3, KASE official list, third category, RDGZp) of KazMunaiGas Exploration Production;

6. common shares GB00B0HZPV38 (KASE official list, first category, GB_KZMS) of KAZAKHMYS PLС;

7. common shares KZ1C36280010 (KZ0007786572, KASE official list, second category, CCBN) of Bank CenterCredit;

8. common shares KZ1C00400016 (KZ000A0JC858, KASE official list, first category, KKGB) of Kazkommertsbank;

9. common shares KZ1C54620014 (KZ1C00000553, KASE official list, first category, SATC) of SAT & Company;

10. preferred shares KZ1P43150112 (KZ1P00000467, KASE official list, second category, ZERDp) of Mineral Resources of Central Asia;

11. common shares KZ1C34920013 (Unlisted Securities sector, BTAS) of BTA  Bank;

12. common shares GB00B29BCK10 (KASE official list, first category, GB_ENRC) of EURASIAN NATURAL RESOURCES CORPORATION PLC;

13. common shares KZ1C24120012 (KZ1C00000165, KASE official list, second category, BSUL) of Bayan Sulu.

The list of shares of the first class of liquidity composed for April-May 2012, did not change compared with the list of liquid shares composed for February - March 2012.

Trading in shares of the first class of liquidity (liquid shares as stated in the previous edition of the Methodology) is held at KASE on working days – from 11:30 through 17:00 (Almaty time) by method of uninterrupted counter-directed auction (whereas the so-called Frankfurt trading method is used) and are switched to standby-mode in case of matching or crossing of bids and asks, if the price of a proposed deal deviates from the last transaction price of such shares by 10 %. For market-makers for the first liquidity class shares the maximum values of spreads between the best mandatory quotations for securities are set at 7 %.

Trading in shares of the second and third classes of liquidity is held at KASE on working days - from 15:00 through 17:00 (Almaty time) by method of uninterrupted counter-directed auction and are switched to standby-mode in case of matching or crossing of bids and asks, if the price of a proposed deal deviates from the last transaction price of such shares by 5 %. For market-makers of illiquid shares of the second and third classes of liquidity the maximum values of spreads between the best mandatory quotations for securities are set at 10 %.

The lists of shares of the first, second and third classes of liquidity for February - March 2012 are available on KASE website at http://www.kase.kz/files/normative_base/likvid_2012_febr_march_eng.pdf