Bank of Japan Operations in the Money Markets (February 2006)
March 1, 2006
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2006 2/2 2 2 3 7 7 7 9 10 13 14 14 14 15 16 16 20 20 21 22 23 23 27 28 28 28 |
CP-purchases Bills-sales Bills-purchases-Head Bills-purchases-All JGSs-purchases CP-purchases Bills-purchases-Head Bills-purchases-All Bills-purchases-Head JGSs-sales CP-purchases Bills-sales Bills-purchases-All Bills-sales JGSs-purchases Bills-purchases-Head JGSs-sales Bills-purchases-Head CP-purchases Bills-purchases-All JGSs-purchases Bills-purchases-Head Bills-purchases-Head JGSs-purchases CP-purchases Bills-purchases-All |
2/6 2/3 2/6 2/7 2/9 2/9 2/9 2/13 2/14 2/15 2/16 2/15 2/16 2/16 2/20 2/20 2/22 2/22 2/23 2/24 2/27 2/27 3/1 3/2 3/2 3/2 |
3/20 2/20 6/20 6/20 4/14 3/23 6/20 6/20 6/23 2/27 4/6 2/27 7/5 2/27 4/6 6/28 3/2 4/5 4/14 4/4 4/14 5/22 6/16 4/18 4/4 6/20 |
4,000 6,000 8,000 8,000 4,000 4,000 8,000 8,000 8,000 5,000 4,000 8,000 8,000 8,000 4,000 8,000 8,000 6,000 4,000 6,000 4,000 8,000 8,000 4,000 4,000 8,000 |
4,383 22,700 21,235 14,480 4,545 2,687 14,876 10,337 20,855 18,650 4,584 27,100 33,486 23,600 8,336 21,149 16,500 9,448 5,072 20,756 11,590 22,630 24,796 10,989 3,780 24,343 |
3,914 6,004 8,003 8,001 4,002 2,687 8,008 8,010 8,000 5,002 3,995 8,003 8,001 8,002 4,004 8,002 8,002 6,000 3,825 6,110 4,002 8,003 7,950 4,001 3,780 8,020 |
0.002* 0.001 0.004 0.003 0.001 0.001* 0.001 0.001 0.004 0.001 0.002 0.001 0.019 0.001 0.001 0.015 0.001 0.003 0.004* 0.006* 0.003 0.020 0.032* 0.007 0.001* 0.041* |
0.005 0.001 0.005 0.005 0.001 0.001 0.002 0.001 0.006 0.001 0.042 0.001 0.021 0.001 0.002 0.023 0.001 0.007 0.028 0.007 0.004 0.024 0.036 0.010 0.013 0.046 |
30.5 79.0 72.1 87.8 27.7 70.8 83.2 35.7 50.0 36.4 63.7 44.2 32.7 79.8 69.6 50.0 32.0 22.7 42.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2006 2/1 3 10 17 24 |
Outright sales Outright purchases Outright purchases Outright purchases Outright purchases |
2/6 2/8 2/15 2/22 3/1 |
4,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 |
11,300 10,550 21,481 15,274 24,432 |
4,000 5,004 5,003 5,002 5,001 |
0.000 -0.001 0.003 0.004 0.010 |
0.000 0.001 0.003 0.006 0.014 |
40.0 27.3 66.8 72.7 32.8 |
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2006 2/8 22 |
2/10 2/24 |
1,000 1,000 |
649 448 |
511 358 |
0.000 0.000 |
0.001 0.001 |
58.4 63.7 | |
| (Memo1) | Outright purchase and sale operations of JGBs | |
| The Bank of Japan offered outright purchase operations of JGBs worth 300.0 billion yen on February 1, 300.0 billion yen on February 8, 300.0 billion yen on February 15 and 300.0 billion yen on February 22. The purchases were exercised at 300.8 billion yen on February 6, 297.0 billion yen on February 13, 289.8 billion yen on February 20 and 230.2 billion yen on February 27, respectively. | ||
| (Memo2) | Outright purchases of asset-backed bonds | |
| No purchases in February. | ||
| (Memo3) | Securities lending as a secondary source of JGSs | |
| No purchases in February. | ||
| 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. | ||
