Results for May 23 (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 5,723 1,003 0.003 0.003 49.4
US Dollar Funds-Supplying Operations against Pooled Collateral (Starting on May 25) 0 0
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 27,433 27,433 -0.350 -0.351
Funds-Supplying Operations against Pooled Collateral (at All Offices) (Fixed rate) (Unlimited amount) (Starting on May 24) 7,715 7,715
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 #435 (506); #436 (110); 5-year JGB #139 (269); #143 (109); #144 (25); #145 (139); #146 (516); #148 (287); #152 (487); #155 (20); 10-year JGB #333 (25); #342 (34); #343 (1); #350 (12); #352 (52); #353 (1,025); #354 (372); #355 (987); #356 (313); #358 (3,083); #359 (4,609); #360 (2,915); #361 (3,042); #362 (873); #363 (508); #364 (1,017); #365 (1,937); #366 (3,216); #367 (543); #368 (85); 20-year JGB #106 (30); #118 (1); #130 (4); #145 (2); #172 (65); 30-year JGB #2 (36); #4 (38); #75 (8); 40-year JGB #3 (1); #6 (125); and #8 (6).
***** 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.