Results for Mar. 23 (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 more than 1 year and up to 3 years) 8,759 4,502 -0.007 -0.004 9.3
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 3 years and up to 5 years) 9,522 4,509 -0.002 -0.001 58.8
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 5 years and up to 10 years) 10,647 4,256 0.003 0.004 80.2
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 70 70 -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) 2,099 750 0.223 0.272 14.7
* 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 #138 (19); #139 (3); 10-year JGB #337 (19); #338 (11); 30-year JGB #39 (4); and Inflation-indexed bond #22 (14).