Results for Aug. 21 (Mon)

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**** 33,239 33,239 -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): 5-year JGB #145 (146); #146 (258); #148 (84); #154 (9); #159 (2,321); 10-year JGB #333 (105); #350 (57); #352 (180); #353 (58); #354 (849); #355 (564); #356 (396); #357 (2,817); #358 (2,766); #359 (2,860); #360 (5,939); #361 (3,109); #362 (1,085); #363 (968); #364 (2,319); #365 (2,360); #366 (3,369); #368 (445); #370 (15); 20-year JGB #126 (8); 30-year JGB #4 (67); #5 (1); #6 (83); and #39 (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.