Results for Aug. 31 (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 JGBs(residual maturity of more than 1 year and up to 3 years) 8,249 2,507 -0.002 0.000 1.9
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 3 years and up to 5 years) 10,249 3,004 -0.004 -0.004 53.6
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 5 years and up to 10 years) 13,573 4,012 -0.004 -0.004 76.9
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 1,601 1,601 -0.600 -0.605
Funds-Supplying Operations against Pooled Collateral (at All Offices) (Fixed rate) (Starting on Sep. 3) 1,291 1,291
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the afternoon/same-day-start operation***** 125 125 -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).
**** 2-year JGB #372 (0.2 billion yen), 5-year JGB #131 (11.7 billion yen), 10-year JGB #319 (44.8 billion yen), 10-year JGB #342 (24.1 billion yen), 10-year JGB #343 (5.5 billion yen) and T-Bill #773 (73.8 billion yen) were sold through Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation.
***** 10-year JGB #343 was sold through Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the afternoon/same-day-start operation.