Results for May 8 (Thu)

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

Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 5,247 5,247 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 #453 (50); #461 (13); 5-year JGB #147 (157); #151 (100); #156 (274); #157 (118); #159 (326); #160 (25); #174 (74); #178 (97); 10-year JGB #361 (132); #363 (366); #366 (1,090); #367 (1,071); #368 (4); #369 (409); #370 (16); #376 (58); 20-year JGB #124 (32); #128 (40); #131 (9); #133 (60); #136 (2); #141 (94); #145 (40); #163 (178); #172 (23); #184 (57); #189 (40); #191 (24); 30-year JGB #11 (100); #22 (4); #51 (80); #69 (38); #79 (23); 40-year JGB #12 (19); and Inflation-indexed bond #26 (4).