Results for May 2 (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

Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 31,609 31,609 -0.450 -0.451
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)***** 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 #433 (460); #435 (440); #436 (209); #437 (9); 5-year JGB #136 (142); #139 (281); #142 (10); #144 (195); #145 (227); #146 (233); #148 (43); #149 (104); #152 (109); #153 (10); #157 (339); 10-year JGB #350 (315); #351 (100); #352 (509); #353 (1,415); #354 (471); #355 (1,263); #356 (23); #358 (4,100); #359 (3,179); #360 (3,541); #361 (5,030); #362 (1,153); #363 (234); #364 (25); #365 (1,269); #366 (3,165); #367 (423); #368 (311); #369 (982); #370 (284); 20-year JGB #99 (117); #118 (15); #137 (63); #149 (170); #159 (40); #177 (340); 30-year JGB #1 (9); #2 (22); #32 (3); #50 (5); #52 (59); #76 (78); #78 (11); 40-year JGB #5 (3); #6 (69); and Inflation-indexed bond #22 (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.