Results for Mar. 11 (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 14,742 5,001 0.047 0.054 96.3
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of up to 1 year) 1,259 501 0.006 0.010 83.1
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 5 years and up to 10 years) 7,773 3,501 -0.028 -0.017 50.1
Outright purchases of JGBs(inflation-indexed bonds) 1,370 302 -0.360 -0.363 86.1
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 288 288 -0.350 -0.350

* 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 #398 (21); #406 (40); #408 (52); 20-year JGB #75 (16); #157 (37); #166 (10); 40-year JGB #12 (93); and T-bill #889 (19).