Results for Apr. 4 (Wed)

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 15,430 5,000 -0.005 -0.003 47.4
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 1 year and up to 3 years) 10,673 2,502 0.004 0.005 67.9
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 3 years and up to 5 years) 10,162 3,302 0.006 0.007 48.2
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 5 years and up to 10 years) 18,520 4,503 0.007 0.008 44.3
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 97 97 -0.600 -0.600
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the afternoon/same-day-start operation***** 25 25 -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 #332 (1.3 billion yen), 20-year JGB #43 (2.5 billion yen), 20-year JGB #102 (3.0 billion yen), 20-year JGB #127 (0.2 billion yen), 30-year JGB #3 (0.2 billion yen) and 40-year JGB #6 (2.5 billion yen) were sold through Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation.
***** 30-year JGB #57 was sold through Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the afternoon/same-day-start operation.