OREANDA-NEWS. In January 2016 the number of individual accounts involved in shares transactions on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), decreased by 58 % compared with the previous month. The portion of individuals in the gross turnover of shares in monetary terms decreased to 45.1% from 52.5 % in December 2015.

As of the end of January there were 100,969 personal accounts at Central Securities Depository JSC (hereinafter – CD) opened by individuals, which is by 763 accounts less than at the end of the previous month, and by 12,911 accounts more than at the beginning of 2015.

Below is information on the trend of the number of individual accounts in the CD involved in share trades on KASE ("Accounts in transactions"), gross-turnover of trade in shares in such accounts, their transaction percentage in the total gross-turnover of trade in shares in the mentioned month.

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Share in total
Month Accounts Accounts in Gross-turnover, gross
of 2016 with CD transactions* bn tenge* turnover, %*
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January 100,969 964 1.3 45.1
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* without special trading sessions, major deals;

The total gross-turnover of trading in shares on KASE in January decreased by 86 % on the previous month and made up KZT2.9 bn, the trading volume – KZT1.5 bn.