OREANDA-NEWS. From November 1, 2016, Kazakhstan Stock Exchange JSC (KASE) Committee on Indices and Securities Valuation by its decision of October 31, 2016 defined new parameters of shares, included in the representative list of KASE index – portions of shares in free circulation, and restrictive coefficients. The table below shows new share parameters and those effective till November 1, influencing the KASE Index value.
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           Effective from November 1, 2016     Effective till November 1, 2016
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                          free restrictive                   free  restrictive
           outstanding   float coefficient    outstanding   float coefficient 
Ticker          shares (Fi), %        (Ri)         shares (Fi), %         (Ri)
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CCBN       162,456,800    26.6   1.0000000    162,456,800    26.6    1.0000000
GB_KZMS    458,379,033    57.0   0.1343896    458,379,033    57.0    0.2017803
HSBK    10,995,541,982    26.5   0.2685502 10,995,598,112    26.5    0.2884450
KCEL       200,000,000    25.0   0.7107775    200,000,000    25.0    0.6443310
KEGC       260,000,000    10.0   1.0000000    260,000,000    10.0    1.0000000
KZTK        10,707,323    23.0   1.0000000     10,707,323    23.0    1.0000000
KZTO       384,628,099    10.0   0.8974956    384,628,099    10.0    0.9981698
RDGZ        67,693,075    36.3   0.1119533     67,693,075    36.3    0.0904073
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                 Removed from KASE Index representative list                  
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BAST           202,591    14.8   1.0000000                                    
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In addition, by the mentioned Committee on Indices and Securities Valuation decision from November 1, 2016 at the KASE index calculation shall be used the new adjustment coefficient (K) value – 1.5898309. Before the said date the value was 1.5053681.

KASE Index – KASE share market index, showing change of prices of shares listed on the representative list for calculation of the index with account to capitalization of issuers and number of free floating shares (free float). One stock may not exceed 15% weight in the index.

KASE Index is calculated within a trading day as deals in the representing stocks are concluded. In case no deals, parameters of which are required for calculation of the KASE Index were made in the stock during a trading day, for purposes of such calculation, results of the last resultant trading session will be used.