Results for Apr. 16 (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 1 year and up to 3 years) 10,039 2,751 -0.008 -0.006 94.5
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 3 years and up to 5 years) 9,638 2,753 -0.022 -0.020 95.5
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 5 years and up to 10 years) 7,972 3,002 -0.041 -0.038 18.7
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 25 years) 2,558 751 -0.076 -0.074 100.0
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 1,576 1,576 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 #454 (20); #458 (6); 5-year JGB #157 (339); #159 (533); 10-year JGB #342 (3); #361 (129); #362 (2); #367 (200); #370 (199); 20-year JGB #119 (4); #162 (83); #171 (28); and 40-year JGB #15 (30).