Results for Oct. 17 (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 6,017 1,001 0.017 0.021 92.2
US Dollar Funds-Supplying Operations against Pooled Collateral (Starting on Oct. 19) 3 3
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 35,552 35,552 -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 #451 (970); 5-year JGB #145 (351); #147 (297); #149 (422); #152 (121); #159 (1,276); #160 (72); 10-year JGB #352 (797); #353 (1,503); #354 (2,510); #355 (2,913); #356 (781); #357 (599); #358 (2,098); #359 (79); #360 (3,484); #361 (6,022); #362 (1,169); #363 (1,075); #364 (20); #365 (2,456); #366 (3,603); #367 (773); #369 (1,995); 20-year JGB #75 (11); #87 (56); #185 (35); 30-year JGB #4 (63); and 40-year JGB #9 (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.