Results for Oct. 18 (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 7,814 1,000 0.031 0.036
US Dollar Funds-Supplying Operations against Pooled Collateral (Starting on Oct. 20) 1 1
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 11,605 11,605 -0.350 -0.350
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the afternoon/same-day-start operation***** 100 100 -0.350 -0.350
Outright purchases of JGBs (fixed-rate method) (residual maturity of more than 5 years and up to 10 years)****** 70 70
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 #421 (33); #423 (79); #425 (71); #426 (29); #428 (342); 5-year JGB #144 (225); 10-year JGB #347 (536); #353 (300); #354 (100); #357 (1,165); #359 (117); #360 (112); #365 (5,585); #366 (2,782); 20-year JGB #113 (39); Inflation-indexed bond #21 (6); #22 (9); and #25 (75).
***** 10-year JGB #329 was sold through Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the afternoon/same-day-start operation.
****** 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.