Bank of Japan Operations in the Money Markets (March 2004)
April 1, 2004
Bank of Japan
Financial Markets Department
(100 million yen, percent per annum)
| Operations by Transactions under Repurchase Agreements and Purchases and Sales of Bills | |||||||||
| Date of Offer |
Instrument | Date of Exercise | Date of Resale or Repurchase |
(a) Amounts Offered |
Amounts of Competitive Bid | Amounts of Successful Bid | (b) Pro-rata or Non-pro-rata Rate |
Average Successful Bid Rate | Allocation on a Pro-rata Basis Rate |
2004 3/1 1 1 2 3 8 9 9 10 15 15 16 17 19 23 25 25 25 26 26 29 29 31 31 |
JGSs-purchases Bills-purchases-Head Bills-purchases-All CP-purchases Bills-purchases-Head CP-purchases Bills-sales Bills-purchases-All Bills-sales JGSs-sales CP-purchases Bills-purchases-Head Bills-sales Bills-sales Bills-purchases-All JGSs-purchases Bills-sales Bills-sales Bills-sales Bills-sales Bills-sales Bills-sales Bills-sales Bills-sales |
3/3 3/3 3/3 3/4 3/5 3/10 3/10 3/11 3/11 3/17 3/17 3/18 3/18 3/22 3/25 3/29 3/26 3/26 3/29 3/30 3/30 3/30 4/1 4/2 |
5/18 6/15 9/24 4/23 6/18 5/10 3/22 8/17 3/22 3/25 5/13 5/18 3/24 3/29 4/15 4/15 4/7 4/20 4/19 4/7 4/12 4/20 4/20 4/12 |
4,000 8,000 8,000 4,000 8,000 4,000 8,000 8,000 8,000 8,000 4,000 8,000 8,000 6,000 4,000 4,000 4,000 4,000 5,000 5,000 4,000 4,000 10,000 8,000 |
8,337 32,664 31,026 5,462 33,445 5,144 44,300 35,111 44,400 27,360 4,755 34,322 39,508 33,495 21,523 10,980 17,370 13,600 11,260 13,880 10,550 8,880 41,200 33,800 |
4,001 8,007 8,006 3,934 8,005 3,924 8,004 8,003 8,004 8,000 4,200 8,004 8,006 6,007 4,002 4,002 3,900 4,001 5,003 5,002 3,800 4,002 10,005 8,003 |
0.002 0.002 0.002 0.002 0.002 0.002 0.001 0.003 0.001 0.001 0.005* 0.004 0.001 0.001 0.009 0.005 0.004* 0.005 0.005 0.004 0.004* 0.005 0.001 0.001 |
0.002 0.002 0.002 0.003 0.003 0.002 0.001 0.003 0.001 0.001 0.007 0.006 0.001 0.001 0.011 0.010 0.002 0.004 0.004 0.003 0.004 0.004 0.001 0.001 |
75.5 41.1 23.6 64.1 10.4 83.2 18.2 69.0 18.4 40.0 - 5.8 20.6 18.4 48.4 61.8 - 54.8 69.3 25.7 - 18.0 34.6 28.6 |
| Outright Purchases and Sales Operation of TBs and FBs | ||||||||
| Date of Offer |
Instrument | Date of Exercise | (a) Amounts Offered |
Amounts of Competitive Bid | Amounts of Successful Bid | (c) Pro-rata or Non-pro-rata Yield Spread |
Average Successful Yield Spread | Allocation on a Pro-rata Basis Rate |
2004 3/4 5 11 18 19 25 |
Outright purchases Outright purchases Outright purchases Outright purchases Outright purchases Outright purchases |
3/9 3/10 3/16 3/23 3/24 3/30 |
6,000 6,000 6,000 6,000 6,000 6,000 |
21,600 22,163 29,353 17,022 19,280 9,183 |
6,010 6,010 6,011 6,008 6,005 6,001 |
0.002 0.002 0.002 0.002 -0.001 -0.005 |
0.002 0.002 0.003 0.002 -0.001 -0.002 |
40.8 66.0 13.9 63.3 85.8 24.2 |
| Outright Purchase Operations of ABCP | ||||||||
| Date of
Offer |
Date of Exercise | Maximum Purchase Amount | Amounts of Competitive Bid | Amounts of Successful Bid | (d) Pro-rata or Non-pro-rata Yield Spread |
Average Successful Yield Spread | Allocation on a Pro-rata Basis Rate | |
2004 3/5 12 19 |
3/9 3/16 3/23 |
500 500 500 |
587 1,554 808 |
469 490 499 |
0.000 0.012 0.001 |
0.001 0.019 0.006 |
49.1 20.0 92.9 | |
| (Memo1) | Outright purchase and sale operations of JGBs | |
| The Bank of Japan offered outright purchase operations of JGBs worth 300.0 billion yen on March 1, 300.0 billion yen on March 10, 300.0 billion yen on March 17 and 300.0 billion yen on March 24. The purchases were exercised at 285.5 billion yen on March 4, 300.3 billion yen on March 15, 300.9 billion yen on March 22 and 300.2 billion yen on March 29, respectively. | ||
| (Memo2) | Outright purchases of asset-backed bonds | |
| No purchases in March. | ||
| NOTES: | ||
| 1. | Bills-sales | : Outright Sales of Bills Drawn by BOJ |
| Bills-purchases-Head | : Outright Purchases of Bills at Head Office | |
| Bills-purchases-All | : Outright Purchases of Bills at All Offices | |
| CP-purchases | : Purchases of CP under Repurchase Agreements | |
| JGSs-purchases | : Purchases of JGSs under Repurchase Agreements | |
| JGSs-sales | : Sales of JGSs under Repurchase Agreements | |
| Outright Purchases | : Outright Purchases of TBs/FBs | |
| Outright Sales | : Outright Sales of TBs/FBs | |
| 2. | * denotes dates when offers and transactions were exercised on the same day. | |
| 3. | (a) Planned amounts on offer days. | |
| (b) * denotes non-pro-rata rates; otherwise the figures denote pro-rata rates. | ||
| (c) The difference between the yield at which operation counterparts want to sell (purchase) and the corresponding yield determined by the Bank of Japan with the prevailing market yield (the "yield spread") taken into account for auctions. * denotes non-pro-rata yield spreads; otherwise the figures denote pro-rata yield spreads. | ||
| (d) The difference between the yield at which operation counterparts want to sell and the corresponding floor yield determined by the Bank of Japan with the maturities and prevailing market yield (the "yield spread") taken into account for auctions. * denotes non-pro-rata yield spreads; otherwise the figures denote pro-rata yield spreads. | ||
