Results for May 16 (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 7,773 1,001 0.005 0.005 55.6
US Dollar Funds-Supplying Operations against Pooled Collateral (Starting on May 18) 0 0
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 29,729 29,729 -0.350 -0.351
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 (607); #435 (209); #436 (24); #441 (1); 5-year JGB #139 (269); #144 (135); #146 (161); #147 (599); #148 (218); #149 (14); #152 (10); #153 (50); 10-year JGB #342 (79); #348 (4); #351 (234); #352 (248); #353 (392); #354 (683); #355 (927); #358 (4,913); #359 (2,893); #360 (3,119); #361 (3,121); #362 (1,688); #363 (546); #364 (895); #365 (1,730); #366 (3,204); #367 (618); #368 (276); #369 (1,026); 20-year JGB #114 (170); #118 (22); #121 (27); #139 (1); #172 (136); #176 (200); #179 (80); #184 (12); 30-year JGB #2 (16); #4 (46); #41 (3); 40-year JGB #6 (122); and Inflation-indexed bond #22 (1).
***** 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.