Results for Aug. 23 (Tue)

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 6,537 1,000 0.026 0.026 93.7
US Dollar Funds-Supplying Operations against Pooled Collateral (Starting on Aug. 25) 2 2
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 9,020 9,020 -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 JGBs (fixed-rate method) (residual maturity of more than 5 years and up to 10 years)***** 0 0
Outright purchases of JGBs (fixed-rate method) (residual maturity of more than 5 years and up to 10 years)****** 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 #434 (209); #435 (173); 5-year JGB #136 (2); 10-year JGB #346 (1,573); #347 (1); #352 (51); #354 (187); #356 (1,097); #364 (516); #366 (5,128); 20-year JGB #145 (5); 30-year JGB #38 (1); #51 (8); #65 (2); 40-year JGB #6 (9); Inflation-indexed bond #18 (2); #22 (2); and #25 (54).
***** Bonds subject to the Bank's purchases are the three on-the-run issues.
****** The bond subject to the Bank's purchases is the cheapest-to-deliver issue.