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Amount of purchases, (sales), issuances and (settlements) of financial instrument classified as an asset measured using unobservable inputs that reflect the entity's own assumption about the assumptions market participants would use in pricing.

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For each line item in the statement of financial position, the amounts of gains and losses from fair value changes included in earnings.

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