Turnover of UZSE hits 37bn soums in 1H

The exchange recorded 437 exchange deals (567 deals in the first half of 2013) with 73.315 million shares of 84 public companies for 29.7 billion soums and 6,700 bonds of three issuers for US$7.3 billion soums in the reporting period.

Share of IPO market in total volume of deals made up 19.7 billion soums or 53.3% in January-June 2014. The share of IPO market rose 1.3 times year-on-year (14.9 billion soums in 1H 2013).

Share of the secondary market made up 43.3% or 16 billion soums, which fell by 5.8% compared to the same period of 2013 (18.3 billion soums in 1H), of which 1.25 billion soums were conducted with corporate bonds and 0.8 billion soums were REPO deals.

About 83.1% of exchange turnover or 30.7 billion soums fell to share of financial sector, of which 78.2% of the exchange turnover or 28.9 billion soums – banks, 4.8% or 1.8 billion soums –insurance companies and 0.1% or 0.04 billion soums – leasing companies. In the same period of 2013, the share of financial sector made up 82.4% or 27.4 billion soums.

Share of agriculture complex made up 2.2% in total turnover or 0.8 billion soums (7.2% and 2.4 billion soums in 1H 2013).

The industrial sector accounted 3.9% of total turnover or 1.4 billion soums in January-June 2014 (0.6% and 0.2 billion soums in 1H 2013).

Share of construction industry in total turnover was 2.7% or 1 billion soums in January-June 2014 (1.8% or 0.6 billion soums in 1H 2013).