Results for Aug. 8 (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 JGBs(residual maturity of more than 1 year and up to 3 years) 9,398 2,506 0.003 0.003 80.6
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 3 years and up to 5 years) 8,233 3,006 0.002 0.003 42.9
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 5 years and up to 10 years) 12,815 4,003 -0.003 0.000 6.9
Outright purchases of JGBs(inflation-indexed bonds) 1,359 251 -0.060 -0.092 54.9
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 1,506 1,506 -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 #349 (73.5 billion yen), 10-year JGB #350 (67.6 billion yen), 20-year JGB #165 (9.4 billion yen) and 30-year JGB #37 (0.1 billion yen) were sold through Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation.