Trading volume on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange rose 18.7% in H1

ALMATY. July 15 (Interfax) - Trading volume across all Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) markets grew 18.7% year-on-year in January-June 2024 to 187.181 trillion tenge, KASE said in a statement.

Trading volume in shares reached 154.4 billion tenge, a 4.9% increase compared to the same period last year.

Equities market capitalization surged 20.8% since the beginning of the year to 32.3 trillion tenge.

As of June 2024, the trading lists of KASE included 100 types of shares from 85 issuers.

Established in 1993 at the initiative of Kazakhstan's National Bank and second-tier banks, KASE facilitates trading in foreign currencies, government securities, shares, corporate bonds and REPO and derivatives.