OREANDA-NEWS. By the decision of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) Board from January 23, 2009 KASE opens trades in affined gold bars futures with delivery in March 2009. In the KASE trading system the mentioned futures were assigned abbreviations (trading codes) FAULGD_0903D and FAUGST_0903D, reported the press-centre of KASE.

In compliance with item 7 of the Specification of Affined Gold Bars Futures the last day of trades in the mentioned tranche futures is March 19, 2009.

Trades in fixed-term contracts on KASE are open daily from 10:30 a.m. to 17:00 p.m. ALT.

KASE category "C" members are entitled to participate in trading fixed-term contracts, whose list is published on KASE website at http://www.kase.kz/ru/membership

The mentioned Specification text is published at http://www.kase.kz/files//normative_base/spec_gold.pdf

The text of Instruction of Coding Members of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange, Financial Instruments and Securities Issuers is published at http://www.kase.kz/files//normative_base/code_fins.pdf

The text of Rules on Exchange Trading and Settlement on Fixed-Term Contracts is published at http://www.kase.kz/files/normative_base/rules_fut.pdf