By KYIV. May 10 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The number of transactions with shares of Ukrainian issuers processed by the Settlement Center for servicing contracts on financial markets (Kyiv) in April amounted to just under 120 ones, which is 44% lower than in March, while the volume increased six times, from UAH 2.97 million to UAH 18.3 million.
According to the data published on the Settlement Center’s website, the volume of transactions with shares of foreign issuers also increased significantly, to UAH 23.77 million, which exceeded the March figures by 19 times, while the number of transactions increased from 11 to 17 ones.
The number of transactions with hryvnia domestic government bonds decreased by 4% and amounted to almost 18,400, while their volume increased by 16.8%, to UAH 36 billion.
It is specified that 101 transactions were carried out with dollar government bonds over the last month: this is ten transactions more than in March, and their volume amounted to $90.2 million (16.3% less than in March). In April, three transactions with government bonds in euros were processed, for the amount of EUR1.45 million instead of two a month earlier.
As for corporate bonds, some 13 deals were made with them against 36 a month earlier, and the volume decreased almost 66.7%, from UAH 867.3 million to UAH 290.6 million. At the same time, the number of processed bonds of foreign issuers increased by three, to 46, and the volume – from UAH 2.31 billion to UAH 2.4 billion.
The volume of processed transactions with bonds of external government loans also increased – from UAH 6.887 million to almost UAH 14.5 million, while in April three more transactions were processed than in March.
