Results for Oct. 31 (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 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
US Dollar Funds-Supplying Operations against Pooled Collateral (Starting on Nov. 2) 0 0
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation****** 54,127 54,127 -0.450 -0.450
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the afternoon/same-day-start operation 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).
**** 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.
****** 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 (657); 5-year JGB #143 (17); #145 (20); #146 (583); #149 (903); #152 (466); #153 (600); #155 (352); #157 (59); #159 (850); #160 (358); 10-year JGB #350 (274); #351 (337); #352 (1,321); #353 (1,983); #354 (2,946); #355 (2,841); #356 (1,627); #357 (2,665); #358 (2,965); #359 (4,917); #360 (5,133); #361 (5,667); #362 (1,943); #363 (2,639); #364 (403); #365 (3,028); #366 (3,732); #367 (348); #368 (159); #369 (2,290); #370 (663); #371 (144); #372 (597); 20-year JGB #87 (14); #91 (38); #92 (130); #93 (12); #102 (55); #128 (14); #153 (202); #166 (3); #179 (10); 30-year JGB #4 (97); #9 (1); #12 (39); #30 (2); and Inflation-indexed bond #27 (23).