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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table. This element represents information relating to other investments.

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This item represents the revenues from other investments which are not included in another category or item, including realized gains and losses from the sale of other investments, impairment losses and unrealized gains or losses on other investment accounted for under the fair value option.

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Amount of impairment loss on investment in equity security without readily determinable fair value.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 321
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (b)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=120269885&loc=SL75117539-209714

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Amount of cumulative impairment loss on investment in equity security without readily determinable fair value.

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Percentage of subsidiary's or equity method investee's stock owned by parent immediately after all stock transactions.

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