* updated today
CURRENCY/INTEREST RATE
LATEST PREVIOUS
*tenge/dollar 149.08 149.03
Cbank refinancing rate (pct) 7.00 7.50
MONEY
Monetary base(trln tenge) Oct 31 2.56 Sept 30 2.75
Cbank gold/forex reserves ($bln)
Nov 30 23.3 Oct 31 20.2
National fund ($bln) Nov 30 24.2 Oct 31 23.7
Money supply(M3) (trln tenge) Oct 31 7.31 Sept 30 7.26
QUARTERLY DATA
Jan-Sept'09 Jan-June'09 Jan-Mar'08 Jan-Dec'08
GDP (trln tenge) 11.203 6.446 3.046 15.907
GDP (pct) -2.2 -2.3 -2.2 +3.2
MONTHLY DATA
PERIOD CURRENT PREVIOUS YEAR-AGO
MONTH
Industrial output (pct) Jan-Nov +0.7 -0.2 +2.6
Inflation (pct) Nov +0.5 +0.4 +0.4
Unemployment (pct) Sept 6.3 --- 6.4
Oil production (mln T) Oct 6.8 6.2 6.1
Copper output ('000 T) Oct 37.6 25.0 36.4
Zinc output ('000 T) Oct 27.2 26.3 30.7
Oil production (mln T) Jan-Oct 63.0 56.2 58.4
Copper output ('000 T) Jan-Oct 292.5 254.9 330.6
Zinc output ('000 T) Jan-Oct 275.4 248.2 303.9
Inflation (pct) Jan-Oct +5.1 +4.7 +8.8
Trade balance ($bln) Jan-Sept +8.8 +7.3 +28.1
Exports ($bln) Jan-Sept 29.4 25.2 56.1
Imports ($bln) Jan-Sept 20.5 17.9 28.1
FORECASTS FOR 2009
GDP growth (pct) 0.1-0.4
Annual inflation (pct) 7.0
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) 1.0
Oil output (mln T) 75
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
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