Results for Aug. 3 (Thu)

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**** 39,458 39,458 -0.350 -0.352
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the afternoon/same-day-start operation 0 0
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 3 years and up to 5 years) 1,510 1,000 0.013 0.020 30.0
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 5 years and up to 10 years) 7,191 3,005 0.016 0.020 67.1
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 #446 (30); #448 (75); 5-year JGB #145 (322); #146 (32); #159 (2,151); 10-year JGB #350 (731); #351 (142); #354 (749); #355 (355); #357 (1,476); #358 (3,465); #359 (5,161); #360 (5,493); #361 (3,391); #362 (1,608); #363 (2,791); #364 (3,425); #365 (2,574); #366 (3,119); #367 (199); #368 (460); #369 (1,172); 20-year JGB #124 (250); #160 (2); #185 (1); 30-year JGB #4 (91); #53 (1); 40-year JGB #8 (51); #12 (110); Inflation-indexed bond #17 (21); and #28 (10).
***** 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.