UZSE turnover makes up 93.3bn soums in Jan-Aug

About 1,582 deals were recorded in January-August 2015 (547 in 8 months of 2014) and 166 million securities of 60 companies were traded, the exchange’s press service said.

About 78.2% of total turnover or 72.9 billion soums fell to share of the secondary market, of which 1.4 billion soums were deals with corporate bonds. The turnover of the secondary market rose 3.6 times year-on-year (19.9 billion soums in January-August 2014).

The share of the IPO market made up 21.8% or 20.3 billion soums. The turnover in the IPO market decreased by 19% year-on-year in the first eight months of 2015 (25.1 billion soums).

About 89.6% of exchange turnover or 83.6 billion soums fell to share of financial sector. At the same time 88.7% of turnover or 82.8 billion soums fell to share of the banks.

The exchange said that 5.6% of turnover or 5.2 billion soums were deals with the shares of agri-industrial enterprises, 0.13% or 0.1 billion soums – industrial enterprises.