Results for Apr. 2 (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 up to 1 year) 4,703 1,000 0.018 0.019 64.7
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 1 year and up to 3 years) 9,129 2,752 -0.006 -0.005 45.2
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 3 years and up to 5 years) 8,114 2,760 -0.010 -0.009 73.1
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 25 years) 2,312 751 -0.028 -0.023 61.2
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 3,476 3,476 0.250 0.250
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): 2-year JGB #457 (38); #470 (5); 5-year JGB #155 (410); #156 (22); #157 (273); 10-year JGB #359 (421); #362 (540); #363 (383); #366 (175); #367 (102); #369 (7); #370 (581); 20-year JGB #119 (50); #136 (25); #144 (58); 30-year JGB #4 (351); and 40-year JGB #13 (35).