Carrying Amount Of Asset Securitized

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Financial Instruments Redeemed, Mortgages, Mortgage-backed and Asset-backed Securities

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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.

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The fair value as of the balance sheet date of firm holdings in mortgages, mortgage backed securities (investment instruments that represent ownership of an undivided interest in a group of mortgages, where principal and interest from the individual mortgages are used to pay investors' principal and interest on the mortgage backed security) and asset-backed securities that are primarily paid from the cash flows of a discrete pool of receivables or other financial assets (such as credit-card receivables), either fixed or revolving, that by their terms convert into cash within a finite time period. Includes both pledged (to counterparties as collateral for financing transactions) and unpledged holdings.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 940
-SubTopic 320
-Section 45
-Paragraph 2
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=35711157&loc=d3e42546-110969

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Fair value of obligations arising from mortgages, mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities sold short.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 940
-SubTopic 320
-Section 35
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (b)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=35711043&loc=d3e42429-110968

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Represents the number of stores.

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BORROWINGS (Wholly owned Insurance Subsidiary and Intercompany Securities) (Details) $ in Millions	Jul. 29, 2017 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2017 USD ($)	Jan. 28, 2017 USD ($)	Jul. 30, 2016 USD ($)	May 31, 2006 USD ($)	Nov. 30, 2003 USD ($) Store
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Mortgage-backed securities owned						$ 1,300
Asset-backed securities issued					$ 1,800
Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities		$ 900
Subsidiaries
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Number of stores \| Store						133
Securitized trademark rights
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Carrying amount of assets securitized	$ 700		$ 1,000	$ 1,000
Securitized real estate assets
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Carrying amount of assets securitized	$ 600		$ 600	$ 600