Results for Mar. 22 (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 5,700 1,000 0.022 0.022
US Dollar Funds-Supplying Operations against Pooled Collateral (Starting on Mar. 24) 0 0
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 4,407 4,152 -1.100 -3.389
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation***** 42,929 42,929 -0.350 -0.350
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the afternoon/same-day-start operation 0 0
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the afternoon/same-day-start operation****** 255 255 -3.000 -3.000
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): 10-year JGB #367 (successful bid 1,652/ competitive bid 1,652); and #368 (successful bid 2,500/ competitive bid 2,755).
***** 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 #425 (4); #426 (45); #433 (302); #443 (369); 5-year JGB #137 (223); #146 (484); #153 (190); #155 (725); 10-year JGB #350 (212); #351 (625); #352 (693); #353 (458); #354 (1,833); #355 (1,390); #356 (624); #357 (1,567); #358 (5,571); #359 (4,841); #360 (5,742); #361 (3,066); #362 (2,416); #363 (409); #364 (1,680); #365 (2,932); #366 (3,907); #369 (498); 20-year JGB #67 (177); #87 (10); #116 (31); #125 (17); #158 (300); 30-year JGB #2 (40); #4 (32); #6 (19); #29 (20); #35 (189); #36 (100); #38 (80); #53 (43); #68 (51); #76 (419); 40-year JGB #6 (506); #14 (51); and Inflation-indexed bond #27 (38).
****** 10-year JGB #368 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.