Results for Dec. 16 (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 up to 1 year) 2,717 1,501 0.006 0.011 79.9
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 1 year and up to 3 years) 12,363 5,010 0.002 0.002 87.0
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 3 years and up to 5 years) 13,813 4,204 0.000 0.000 75.0
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 5 years and up to 10 years) 13,691 4,204 0.001 0.010 27.1
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 943 943 -0.350 -0.350
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): 10-year JGB #331 (20); #349 (74); 20-year JGB #116 (82); #141 (323); T-bill #953 (200); and #956 (244).