Bank of Japan Head Office

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


September 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
8/1
1
2
2
3
4
4
8
9
11
12
16
18
18
19
23
23
JGSs-purchases
Bills-purchases-All
CP-purchases
Bills-purchases-Head
Bills-purchases-All
JGSs-purchases
Bills-purchases-Head
Bills-purchases-All
CP-purchases
JGSs-sales
Bills-sales
CP-purchases
JGSs-purchases
Bills-purchases-Head
Bills-sales
CP-purchases
Bills-purchases-All
8/3
8/3
8/4
8/4
8/5
8/8
8/8
8/10
8/11
8/15
8/15
8/18
8/22
8/22
8/22
8/25
8/25
10/14
2006/5/26
9/22
2006/1/19
2006/6/7
10/14
2006/1/26
2006/6/15
10/4
8/22
8/22
10/7
10/19
2006/2/8
8/25
10/13
2006/4/14
4,000 
8,000 
4,000 
8,000 
8,000 
4,000 
8,000 
8,000 
4,000 
8,000 
6,000 
4,000 
4,000 
8,000 
4,000 
4,000 
8,000 
6,660 
30,990 
3,962 
3,530 
38,394 
5,669 
4,200 
33,600 
2,812 
22,950 
24,000 
4,871 
8,351 
12,159 
27,650 
4,413 
32,260 
4,002 
8,003 
3,962 
3,530 
8,002 
4,003 
4,200 
8,003 
2,812 
8,002 
6,006 
3,982 
4,004 
8,004 
4,009 
3,988 
8,005 
 
0.001 
0.002 
0.001*
0.001*
0.003 
0.001 
0.001*
0.004 
0.001*
0.001 
0.001 
0.001 
0.001 
0.001 
0.001 
0.001 
0.007 
0.001 
0.002 
0.002 
0.001 
0.003 
0.001 
0.001 
0.005 
0.004 
0.001 
0.001 
0.003 
0.001 
0.002 
0.001 
0.002 
0.007 
60.1 
50.5 
 
 
39.6 
62.0 
 
22.9 
 
66.6 
26.6 
20.0 
44.1 
32.5 
14.7 
82.1 
50.6 


<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
8/5
12
19
26
Outright purchases
Outright purchases
Outright purchases
Outright purchases
8/10
8/17
8/24
8/31
6,000 
6,000 
6,000 
6,000 
5,577 
15,683 
13,641 
5,035 
5,577 
6,004 
6,013 
5,035 
 
-0.002 *
0.001  
0.000  
-0.012 *
0.000 
0.001 
0.000 
-0.001 
 
50.4 
46.3 
 


<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
8/3
17
8/5
8/19
1,000 
1,000 
630 
956 
503 
749 
0.000
0.001
0.001
0.001
61.1 
89.2 

(Memo1) Outright purchase and sale operations of JGBs
The Bank of Japan offered outright purchase operations of JGBs worth 300.0 billion yen on August 1, 300.0 billion yen on August 8, 300.0 billion yen on August 17 and 300.0 billion yen on August 24. The purchases were exercised at 300.9 billion yen on August 4, 300.6 billion yen on August 11, 300.9 billion yen on August 22 and 293.1 billion yen on August 29, respectively.
(Memo2) Outright purchases of asset-backed bonds
No purchases in August.
(Memo3) Securities lending as a secondary source of JGSs
No purchases in August.

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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