Results for Dec. 21 (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 T-Bills 7,474 1,000 0.006 0.008 27.1
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 38,060 38,060 -0.350 -0.350
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the afternoon/same-day-start operation***** 117 117 -0.350 -0.350
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 3 years and up to 5 years) 4,166 1,000 0.062 0.064
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 5 years and up to 10 years) 5,332 1,002 0.051 0.055 85.3
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 #422 (8); #423 (12); #428 (20); #431 (604); #434 (48); #435 (38); #436 (41); #442 (488); #443 (382); 5-year JGB #142 (385); #143 (7); #144 (4); #146 (250); #147 (7); #153 (2); 10-year JGB #336 (45); #339 (14); #342 (79); #344 (7); #345 (91); #347 (90); #348 (577); #350 (14); #352 (694); #353 (15); #354 (797); #355 (975); #356 (455); #357 (27); #358 (4,384); #359 (1,383); #360 (1,007); #361 (570); #362 (546); #363 (167); #364 (184); #365 (5,170); #366 (7,199); #367 (4,422); #368 (5,646); 20-year JGB #101 (50); #113 (182); #135 (136); #156 (22); #161 (197); 30-year JGB #7 (8); #32 (480); #64 (3); 40-year JGB #8 (2); Inflation-indexed bond #22 (4); #25 (91); and #27 (31).
***** The securities sold through Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the afternoon/same-day-start operation were as follows (amount in 100 million yen): 2-year JGB #442 (8); and 10-year JGB #368 (109).
****** 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.