Results for Dec. 17 (Mon)

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) 7,905 3,502 -0.001 0.001 47.1
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 3 years and up to 5 years) 11,032 4,004 -0.007 -0.006 91.1
Outright purchases of JGBs(floating-rate bonds) 2,168 1,000 -0.140 -0.189 21.0
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 1,136 1,136 -0.600 -0.600

* For the case of US Dollar Funds-Supplying Operations against Pooled Collateral, the figures are represented in million U.S. 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).
**** The securities sold through Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation were as follows (amount in 100 million yen): 2-year JGB #391 (243); 5-year JGB #126 (9); 5-year JGB #129 (60); 5-year JGB #130 (79); 5-year JGB #133 (6); 5-year JGB #136 (79); 10-year JGB #341 (288); 10-year JGB #342 (71); 10-year JGB #343 (100); 10-year JGB #344 (150); 10-year JGB #345 (40); and 20-year JGB #109 (11).