Results for May 21 (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
US Dollar Funds-Supplying Operations against Pooled Collateral (Starting on May 23) 0 0
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 31,587 31,587 -0.150 -0.150
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the afternoon/same-day-start operation 0 0
Outright purchases of Corporate Bonds 1,646 750 0.587 0.607 14.3
* 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 #458 (35); 5-year JGB #146 (97); #152 (159); #161 (793); 10-year JGB #339 (32); #348 (67); #353 (1,724); #354 (323); #355 (3,662); #356 (1,453); #357 (1,567); #358 (337); #359 (2,392); #360 (449); #361 (2,643); #362 (3,681); #363 (3,632); #365 (1,262); #366 (2,931); #367 (1,029); #368 (729); #369 (384); #370 (1,414); #372 (82); 20-year JGB #77 (200); #115 (159); #165 (52); #185 (174); 30-year JGB #47 (19); #62 (21); 40-year JGB #8 (76); and T-bill #1205 (9).