Results for May 7 (Thu)

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

US Dollar Funds-Supplying Operations against Pooled Collateral (Starting on May 11) 400 400
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of up to 1 year) 2,362 801 0.008 0.011 71.6
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 1 year and up to 3 years) 6,864 3,404 0.010 0.014 43.6
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 5 years and up to 10 years) 12,698 3,711 0.018 0.019 33.7
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 3,003 3,003 -0.350 -0.357
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the afternoon/same-day-start operation 0 0

* 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 #397 (72); #407 (25); 10-year JGB #321 (44); #346 (260); #354 (2); #357 (2); #358 (2,487); 20-year JGB #83 (1); #104 (25); and 30-year JGB #60 (85).