Results for Dec. 22 (Thu)

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 3 years and up to 5 years) 11,153 6,502 -0.049 -0.025 47.2
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 5 years and up to 10 years) 13,766 6,753 -0.107 -0.082 86.3
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 33,476 33,476 -0.350 -0.350
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the afternoon/same-day-start operation***** 1 1 -0.350 -0.350
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 #423 (50); #428 (11); #431 (669); #435 (117); #436 (277); #442 (711); #443 (195); 5-year JGB #144 (55); #146 (292); 10-year JGB #345 (6); #350 (14); #352 (436); #353 (31); #354 (342); #355 (137); #356 (51); #358 (2,331); #359 (3,168); #360 (641); #361 (515); #362 (552); #364 (1,280); #365 (5,073); #366 (7,194); #367 (4,580); #368 (4,241); 20-year JGB #133 (150); #139 (92); 30-year JGB #20 (21); #44 (4); #46 (21); #52 (4); 40-year JGB #2 (120); Inflation-indexed bond #22 (4); and #25 (91).
***** 20-year JGB #182 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.