Results for Jan. 18 (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**** 32,938 32,938 -0.350 -0.350
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the afternoon/same-day-start operation 0 0
Outright purchases of Corporate Bonds 2,443 1,000 0.310 0.327 25.5

* 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 #452 (2); 5-year JGB #146 (211); #150 (3); #152 (687); #163 (31); 10-year JGB #352 (73); #353 (2,724); #354 (2,669); #355 (3,013); #356 (2,529); #357 (834); #358 (1,378); #360 (2,255); #361 (3,512); #362 (3,373); #363 (961); #365 (1,543); #366 (2,675); #367 (825); #368 (684); #369 (2,643); 20-year JGB #106 (25); #158 (108); 30-year JGB #4 (25); #69 (103); #70 (2); and 40-year JGB #16 (50).