Results for May 10 (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

Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 30,019 30,019 -0.350 -0.351
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the afternoon/same-day-start operation***** 4 4 -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 #433 (554); #435 (275); 5-year JGB #136 (139); #139 (269); #144 (159); #145 (90); #146 (186); #153 (401); 10-year JGB #350 (215); #351 (170); #352 (386); #353 (875); #354 (1,449); #355 (650); #358 (3,468); #359 (5,479); #360 (3,808); #361 (3,884); #362 (816); #363 (456); #365 (1,461); #366 (3,326); #367 (573); #368 (241); #369 (175); 20-year JGB #76 (24); #92 (16); #99 (132); #106 (5); #153 (115); 30-year JGB #2 (16); #6 (8); #55 (166); 40-year JGB #3 (29); Inflation-indexed bond #19 (2); and #22 (1).
***** 10-year JGB #350 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.