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Purchases of Investment Securities Traded, Not Yet Settled

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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 excess of (1) fair value of the consideration transferred to the holders of the preferred stock over (2) the carrying amount of the preferred stock in the registrant's balance sheet, during the accounting period.

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Amount of cash inflow from the sale of investments classified as other.

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Amount of real estate investments acquired through foreclosure for entities with a substantial portion of business acquiring and holding investment real estate.

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