According to the press service of the Uzbek Commodity Exchange, 223 purchase and sale transactions were carried out on shares of 32 joint stock companies during the December 19-23 trade week at Uzbekistan’s Tashkent Republican Stock Exchange market.

During the reporting week, 10.2 million ordinary and 0.7 million privileged shares worth 7.1 billion soums were sold, compared to 35.4 billion soums last week.

It is worth noting that securities of commercial banks had the greatest demand over the period mentioned – 93.5% (6.7 billion soums), while construction companies ranked second with a share of 1.2% (85.5 million soums).

The average value of transactions amounted to 32 million soums, while the average daily transaction volume was 1.4 billion soums. The average selling price per share was 659.5 soums, and the average daily number of securities sold was 2.2 million.

To date – since the beginning of the year – 662.3 billion soums worth security and corporate bond transactions have been concluded at the Toshkent RSE.