BOJ offers to buy Y275 bln JGBs outright from Feb. 10

TOKYO | Wed Feb 4, 2009 8:29pm EST

TOKYO Feb 5 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan said on Thursday it has offered to purchase a total 275 billion yen ($3.08 billion) in Japanese government bonds outright from Feb. 10.

The BOJ said it would buy 200 billion yen of JGBs with maturities of more than one year and less than 10 years.

The central bank also said it would buy 75 billion yen of JGBs with maturities of more than 10 years and less than 30 years.

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