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Note 14 - Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income ("AOCI")
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2016
Notes to Financial Statements  
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) Disclosure [Text Block]
14.
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (“AOCI”)
 
The following tables display the change in the components of accumulated other comprehensive income for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 and 2015:
 
 
 
Foreign
Currency
Translation Adjustments
 
 
Unrealized
Gains on
Available-for-
Sale
Investments
 
 
Unrealized
Loss
on Interest
Rate Swaps
 
 
Total
 
Balance as of January 1, 2016
  $ 6,616     $ 398     $ (1,426 )   $ 5,588  
Other comprehensive income before reclassifications
    971       18       (432 )     557  
Amounts reclassified from AOCI
    -       -       -       -  
Net current-period other comprehensive income
    971       18       (432 )     557  
Balance as of September 30, 2016
  $ 7,587     $ 416     $ (1,858 )   $ 6,145  
 
 
 
Foreign
Currency
Translation Adjustments
 
 
Unrealized
Gains on
Available-for-
Sale
Investments
 
 
Unrealized
Loss
on Interest
Rate Swaps
 
 
Total
 
Balance as of January 1, 2015
  $ 329     $ 46,197     $ (1,404 )   $ 45,122  
Other comprehensive income before reclassifications
    (14,973 )     (5,930 )     (475 )     (21,378 )
Amounts reclassified from AOCI (1)
    -       (38,488 )     -       (38,488 )
Net current-period other comprehensive income
    (14,973 )     (44,418 )     (475 )     (59,866 )
Balance as of September 30, 2015
  $ (14,644 )   $ 1,779     $ (1,879 )   $ (14,744 )
 
(1) Amounts reclassified to Interest, dividends and other investment income on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.
 
At September 30, 2016, the Company had a net $7.6 million of unrealized cumulative foreign currency translation adjustment (“CTA”) gains relating to its foreign entity investments in Canada. CTA results from currency fluctuations between local currency and the U.S. dollar during the period in which the Company held its investment. CTA amounts are subject to future changes resulting from ongoing fluctuations in the respective foreign currency exchange rates. Under generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”), the Company is required to release CTA balances into earnings when the Company has substantially liquidated its investment in a foreign entity. During 2015, the Company began selling properties within its Canadian portfolio and as such, the Company may, in the near term, substantially liquidate its remaining investment in Canada, which will require the then unrealized gain on foreign currency translation to be recognized as a benefit to earnings.