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INDICATORS - Kazakhstan - November 6

By: AFX | 06 Nov 2009 | 03:52 AM ET

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ALMATY, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's economic indicators based on data provided by the State Statistics Agency, government institutions, the central bank and exchanges: * updated today CURRENCY/INTEREST RATE LATEST PREVIOUS *tenge/dollar 150.82 150.82 Cbank refinancing rate (pct) 7.00 7.50 MONEY Monetary base(trln tenge) Sept 30 2.75 Aud 31 2.58 *Cbank gold/forex reserves ($bln) Oct 31 20.2 Sept 30 20.0 National fund ($bln) Sept 30 23.8 Aug 31 23.2 Money supply(M3) (trln tenge) Sept 30 7.26 Aug 31 7.07 QUARTERLY DATA Jan-June'09 Jan-Mar'08 Jan-Dec'08 Jan-Dec'07 GDP (trln tenge) 6.446 3.046 15.907 12.567 GDP (pct) -2.3 -2.2 +3.2 +8.9 MONTHLY DATA PERIOD CURRENT PREVIOUS YEAR-AGO MONTH Industrial output (pct) Jan-Sept -1.0 -1.5 +3.0 Inflation (pct) Oct +0.4 +0.4 +0.6 Unemployment (pct) June 6.6 --- 6.5 Oil production (mln T) Sept 6.2 6.4 5.5 Copper output ('000 T) Sept 25.0 23.8 41.4 Zinc output ('000 T) Sept 26.3 26.9 28.9 Oil production (mln T) Jan-Sept 56.2 50.0 52.4 Copper output ('000 T) Jan-Sept 254.9 229.8 294.3 Zinc output ('000 T) Jan-Sept 248.2 222.0 273.2 Inflation (pct) Jan-Oct +5.1 +4.7 +8.8 Trade balance ($bln) Jan-Aug +7.3 +5.4 +25.1 Exports ($bln) Jan-Aug 25.2 21.0 49.6 Imports ($bln) Jan-Aug 17.9 15.6 24.6 FORECASTS FOR 2009 GDP growth (pct) 0.1-0.4 Annual inflation (pct) 8.0-8.5 Budget deficit (bln tenge/pct GDP) 573.6/-3.4 Budget revenues (bln tenge) 1.529 Budget spending (bln tenge) 3.411 Industrial output (pct) 0.4 Oil output (mln T) 76-79 Grain harvest (mln T, clean weight) 20.0 Unemployment (pct) 8.0 ANNUAL COMPARISONS 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 GDP 3.2 +8.9 +10.7 +9.7 +9.6 +9.3 +9.8 +13.5 Ind output (pct) +2.1 +4.5 7.0 +4.6 10.1 +8.8 +9.8 +13.5 Inflation (pct) +9.5 +18.8 +8.6 +7.6 +6.7 +6.8 +6.6 +6.4 Yr-end M3 (trln tenge) 6.27 4.61 3.72 2.07 1.64 1.00 0.77 0.57 Yr end unemployment (pct) 6.7 7.3 7.8 8.2 8.4 8.8 9.3 10.4 Grain harvest (mln T, clean weight) 15.6 20.1 16.5 13.8 12.4 14.8 15.9 15.9 Oil output (mln T) 70.7 67.1 65.0 61.9 59.4 51.5 47.2 40.1 Copper output ('000 T) 398.0 405.8 427.5 418.8 445.2 432.5 453.0 421.8 Note: Oil output includes gas condensate KAZAKHSTAN'S LONG-TERM RATINGS S&P (April 30, 2008) BBB- negative outlook Moody's (June 9, 2006) Baa2 stable outlook Fitch (Nov 10, 2008) BBB- negative outlook (State Statistics Agency website www.stat.kz, Stock Exchange www.kase.kz/eng/ Central Bank www.nationalbank.kz/?switch=eng) ((Almaty Newsroom +7 7272 508500, almaty.newsroom@reuters.com)) (Writing by Olzhas Auyezov) Keywords: KAZAKHSTAN INDICATORS/ (olzhas.auyezov@reuters.com; +7 7272 508500; Reuters Messaging: olzhas.auyezov.reuters.com@reuters.net) COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Reuters 2009. All rights reserved.

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