Results for Oct. 21 (Fri)

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) 15,489 5,001 0.002 0.006 8.8
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 3 years and up to 5 years) 10,856 5,756 -0.003 -0.003 73.6
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 5 years and up to 10 years) 19,507 6,512 -0.002 -0.001 76.9
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 10 years and up to 25 years) 1,578 1,001 0.027 0.032 11.5
Outright purchases of JGBs(inflation-indexed bonds) 3,554 602 -0.600 -0.608 71.7
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 9,683 9,683 -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)***** 3,717 3,717
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 (32); #423 (79); #425 (71); #426 (27); #428 (367); 5-year JGB #146 (182); 10-year JGB #347 (456); #353 (169); #354 (55); #355 (8); #357 (3,927); #360 (683); #365 (3,285); #366 (150); 20-year JGB #117 (73); 40-year JGB #15 (22); Inflation-indexed bond #22 (20); #25 (75); and #26 (2).
***** 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.