Results for Mar. 22 (Thu)

Bank of Japan
Financial Markets Department


(100 million yen, percent per annum)
Instrument Amounts of
Competitive
Bid*		 Amounts of
Successful
Bid*		 Pro-rata
Rate/Yield
Spread**
/Price
Spread***		 Non-pro-
rata
Rate/Yield
Spread**
/Price
Spread***		 Average
Successful
Bid
Rate/Yield
Spread**
/Price
Spread***		 Allocation
on a Pro-
rata Basis
Rate
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 5 years and up to 10 years) 10,969 4,509 -0.004 -0.003 7.3
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 10 years and up to 25 years) 4,843 1,911 -0.004 -0.003 2.8
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 25 years) 2,867 704 0.001 0.001 86.5
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 459 459 -0.600 -0.600
Funds-Supplying Operations against Pooled Collateral (at All Offices) (Fixed rate) (Starting on Mar. 26) 2,152 2,152
* For the case of US Dollar Funds-Supplying Operations against Pooled Collateral, the figures are represented in 1 million dollars.
** These figures represent the yield spreads in Outright purchases of T-Bills, Outright sales of T-Bills, Outright purchases of JGBs (residual maturity of up to 1 year, more than 1 year and up to 5 years, more than 1 year and up to 3 years, more than 3 years and up to 5 years, more than 5 years and up to 10 years, more than 10 years, more than 10 years and up to 25 years, and more than 25 years).
*** These figures represent the price spreads in Outright purchases of JGBs (floating-rate bonds and inflation-indexed bonds) (unit of price spread is yen).
**** 5-year JGB #134 (19.5 billion yen), 10-year JGB #324 (17.6 billion yen), 10-year JGB #327 (2.3 billion yen), 10-year JGB #346 (2.0 billion yen), 20-year JGB #163 (4.4 billion yen) and 20-year JGB #164 (0.1 billion yen) were sold through Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation.