Results for Dec. 25 (Wed)

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(residual maturity of more than 3 years and up to 5 years) 10,215 3,254 -0.011 -0.009 54.4
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 5 years and up to 10 years) 11,139 3,754 -0.010 -0.008 56.0
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 25 years) 2,659 753 -0.004 -0.003 19.1
Outright purchases of JGBs(inflation-indexed bonds) 2,501 600 -0.250 -0.327 4.4
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 5,878 5,878 -0.050 -0.050
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the afternoon/same-day-start operation 0 0
Outright purchases of CP 4,677 1,992 0.457 0.534 13.0

* 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 #449 (180); #456 (15); 5-year JGB #155 (403); #156 (523); 10-year JGB #343 (1); #355 (275); #356 (127); #361 (2,082); #362 (1,125); #366 (700); #369 (105); #370 (103); 20-year JGB #91 (29); #119 (14); #121 (10); #142 (123); #169 (24); 30-year JGB #4 (10); #15 (1); 40-year JGB #7 (2); #13 (1); and Inflation-indexed bond #29 (25).