Results for Aug. 15 (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 5 years and up to 10 years) 11,175 4,017 -0.004 -0.003 31.3
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 10 years and up to 25 years) 6,043 1,809 0.003 0.005 3.7
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 25 years) 2,299 605 0.003 0.004 89.3
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 2,382 2,382 -0.600 -0.600
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the afternoon/same-day-start operation***** 4 4 -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).
**** 5-year JGB #118 (3.3 billion yen), 5-year JGB #136 (159.2 billion yen), 10-year JGB #340 (60.6 billion yen), 20-year JGB #116 (0.4 billion yen) and 20-year JGB #165 (14.7 billion yen) were sold through Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation.
***** 20-year JGB #145 was sold through Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the afternoon/same-day-start operation.