OREANDA-NEWS. In January–March 2015 the volume of trades on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) in all market sectors made up KZT31,063.7 bn (equivalent of USD168,251.1 mln) and increased against the similar 2014 period 2.8 times (2.6 % in dollar terms).

In comparison with the previous three month period (October–December 2014) the trade volume increased by 79.8 % (76.9 % in dollar terms).

The table below shows the trades volume (calculated by amounts raised) in the first two months of 2015 by market sector and comparative data of the same period of 2014.

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                                I–III, 2015       I–III, 2014               Trend
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Market                        trades  struc-    trades  struc-   measuring   in %
sector                        volume ture, %    volume ture, %    currency       
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bn KZT                                                                           
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Foreign currency             23920.4    77.0    8212.8    73.7    +15707.7 +191.3
including:                                                                       
spot-market                   2530.7     8.1    4265.1    38.3     -1734.5  -40.7
swap-market                  21389.8    68.9    3947.6    35.4    +17442.1 +441.8
Kazakhstan GS                  289.4     0.9     191.8     1.7       +97.6  +50.9
including:                                                                       
primary market                 289.1     0.9     172.7     1.5      +116.3  +67.4
secondary market                 0.3