Results for Mar. 18 (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
Purchases of JGSs under repurchase agreements (Starting on Mar. 19) 34,000 30,004 -0.100 -0.098 85.7
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 34,955 34,955 -0.350 -0.350
Funds-Supplying Operations against Pooled Collateral (at All Offices) (Fixed rate) (Unlimited amount) (Starting on Mar. 19) 23,469 23,469
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).
**** 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 #141 (22); #144 (40); #146 (35); #147 (25); #149 (224); #150 (101); #151 (118); #152 (271); #154 (17); 10-year JGB #344 (184); #345 (611); #352 (336); #353 (1,170); #354 (1,143); #355 (2,819); #356 (2,211); #357 (1,753); #359 (3,243); #360 (1,257); #361 (2,575); #362 (2,859); #363 (3,048); #364 (1,563); #365 (1,232); #366 (2,780); #367 (735); #368 (459); #369 (2,138); #370 (683); #373 (168); 20-year JGB #87 (61); #91 (14); #93 (122); #114 (5); #119 (53); #120 (136); #121 (54); #122 (50); #129 (12); #138 (1); #180 (1); 30-year JGB #4 (47); #5 (34); #64 (107); #65 (2); #69 (82); #79 (269); and 40-year JGB #8 (85).