Bank of Japan Head Office

Bank of Japan Operations in the Money Markets (May 2005)


June 1, 2005
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
2005
5/9
10 
10 
11 
16 
17 
18 
18 
19 
23 
23 
23 
24 
25 
26 
30 
31 
 
JGSs-purchases
CP-purchases
Bills-purchases-Head
Bills-purchases-All
JGSs-purchases
CP-purchases
Bills-sales
Bills-purchases-Head
Bills-sales
JGSs-purchases
Bills-purchases-Head
Bills-purchases-All
CP-purchases
Bills-purchases-Head
Bills-purchases-All
JGSs-purchases
Bills-purchases-All
 
5/11
5/12
5/12
5/13
5/18
5/19
5/19
5/20
5/20
5/25
5/25
5/25
5/26
5/27
5/30
6/1
6/2
 
7/7
7/7
9/14
2006/1/24
7/12
7/14
5/25
11/18
5/25
7/15
10/6
2006/2/15
7/21
10/14
2006/3/15
7/28
2006/3/22
 
4,000 
4,000 
8,000 
10,000 
4,000 
4,000 
5,000 
8,000 
5,000 
4,000 
8,000 
10,000 
4,000 
8,000 
10,000 
4,000 
10,000 
 
1,589 
3,761 
3,377 
22,065 
1,527 
2,460 
33,350 
10,144 
31,900 
1,326 
3,623 
24,583 
4,188 
2,842 
28,633 
3,100 
30,618 
 
1,589 
3,761 
3,377 
10,012 
1,527 
2,460 
5,011 
8,004 
5,009 
1,326 
3,623 
10,012 
4,188 
2,842 
10,014 
3,100 
10,013 
 
0.001 *
0.001 *
0.001 *
0.001
0.001 *
0.001 *
0.001
0.001
0.001
0.001 *
0.001 *
0.001
0.001 *
0.001 *
0.001
0.001 *
0.001
 
0.001 
0.002 
0.001 
0.001 
0.001 
0.001 
0.001 
0.001 
0.001 
0.001 
0.001 
0.001 
0.001 
0.001 
0.001 
0.001 
0.001 
 
-  
-  
-  
43.6 
-  
-  
15.2 
78.9 
15.8 
-  
-  
39.1 
-  
-  
35.0 
-  
31.6 


Outright Purchase and Sale Operations 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
2005
5/11
12 
19 
27 
 
Outright purchases
Outright purchases
Outright purchases
Outright purchases
 
5/16
5/17
5/24
6/1
 
6,000 
6,000 
6,000 
6,000 
 
13,539 
9,252 
19,898 
13,856 
 
6,009 
6,005 
6,013 
6,005 
 
0.000
-0.001
0.000
-0.001
 
0.000 
0.000 
0.000 
0.000 
 
48.4 
8.8 
24.9 
18.3 


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
2005
5/12
26 
 
5/16
5/30
 
1,000 
1,000 
 
1,240 
656 
 
992 
517 
 
0.000
0.001
 
0.001
0.001
 
51.3 
75.2 

(Memo1) Outright purchase and sale operations of JGBs
The Bank of Japan offered outright purchase operations of JGBs worth 300.0 billion yen on May 6, 300.0 billion yen on May 11, 300.0 billion yen on May 18 and 300.0 billion yen on May 25. The purchases were exercised at 299.0 billion yen on May 11, 300.8 billion yen on May 16, 295.0 billion yen on May 23 and 300.9 billion yen on May 30, respectively.
(Memo2) Outright purchases of asset-backed bonds
No purchases in May.
(Memo3) Securities lending as a secondary source of JGSs
No purchases in May.

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.
4. Date of repurchase for Securities lending as a secondary source of JGSs:
those without *: the next business day after the offering date.
those with *: the fourth business day after the offering date.


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