Results for Apr. 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 8,693 1,000 0.050 0.052 41.3
US Dollar Funds-Supplying Operations against Pooled Collateral (Starting on Apr. 20) 0 0
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 882 882 -1.100 -1.167
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation***** 36,621 36,621 -0.350 -0.351
Funds-Supplying Operations against Pooled Collateral (at All Offices) (Fixed rate) (Unlimited amount) (Starting on Apr. 19) 10,895 10,895
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the afternoon/same-day-start operation 0 0
Outright purchases of Corporate Bonds 2,676 1,000 0.254 0.288 73.0
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).
**** 10-year JGB #368 was sold through Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation.
***** 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 #433 (466); #435 (221); #443 (388); 5-year JGB #146 (284); 10-year JGB #347 (168); #351 (214); #352 (660); #353 (970); #354 (2,294); #355 (1,022); #357 (2,441); #358 (4,082); #359 (4,715); #360 (3,901); #361 (4,065); #362 (1,692); #363 (331); #365 (2,486); #366 (3,981); #367 (615); #369 (719); 20-year JGB #115 (22); #117 (247); #147 (59); #148 (40); #151 (34); #178 (94); #181 (77); 30-year JGB #1 (4); #16 (150); #26 (4); #31 (100); #44 (10); and 40-year JGB #6 (65).
****** 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.