Results for Mar. 23 (Fri)

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 T-Bills 6,301 2,501 -0.004 0.000 46.1
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 1 year and up to 3 years) 8,214 2,504 0.002 0.003 11.4
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 3 years and up to 5 years) 10,483 3,308 -0.005 -0.004 47.6
Outright purchases of JGBs(inflation-indexed bonds) 980 254 0.000 -0.023 93.5
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 475 475 -0.600 -0.600

* 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).
**** 10-year JGB #324 (28.0 billion yen) and 20-year JGB #53 (19.5 billion yen) were sold through Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation.