Results for Dec. 21 (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 T-Bills 45,446 20,005 0.000 0.001 93.3
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 1 year and up to 3 years) 10,466 5,001 -0.007 -0.003 8.1
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 3 years and up to 5 years) 13,517 4,206 0.000 0.001 34.4
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 5 years and up to 10 years) 12,810 4,204 -0.003 -0.001 36.1
Outright purchases of JGBs(inflation-indexed bonds) 1,667 300 -0.080 -0.141 76.0
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 94 94 -0.350 -0.350
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the afternoon/same-day-start operation 0 0
Outright purchases of Corporate Bonds(residual maturity of more than 3 years and up to 5 years) 3,388 2,000 0.061 0.094 0.4

* 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): 5-year JGB #134 (3); #137 (12); 10-year JGB #318 (8); #323 (27); and 20-year JGB #117 (44).