Results for May 17 (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**** 25,456 25,456 -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 (483); #435 (209); #436 (32); #441 (1); 5-year JGB #139 (269); #144 (165); #146 (181); #148 (208); #152 (2); #154 (3); 10-year JGB #342 (187); #350 (583); #351 (105); #352 (368); #353 (379); #354 (1,152); #355 (969); #358 (3,537); #359 (2,462); #360 (2,631); #361 (3,173); #362 (513); #363 (440); #364 (981); #365 (1,590); #366 (3,194); #367 (632); #368 (297); 20-year JGB #70 (2); #99 (50); #124 (100); #169 (61); #174 (87); #179 (80); #180 (139); 30-year JGB #4 (42); #57 (1); 40-year JGB #1 (39); and #6 (109).
***** 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.