Figures for issuance yields for corporate bonds are the averages for domestically issued bonds launched on a particular date. Bonds issued by banks and securities companies, etc., are excluded. Figures for bank lending rates and issuance yields for corporate bonds show 6-month backward moving averages. 2. Figures for lending by domestic commercial banks are monthly averages.
3 Now, I expect that in a few minutes one of you will ask not about what we did at our last meeting, but rather what we are going to do at the next one. I can't answer that question because, as I have emphasized in the past, we simply do not know.