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Percentage of wholesale, trading and non-trading commodity credit exposure for the entity's most significant counterparties.

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Wholesale, trading and non-trading commodity credit exposure for the entity's most significant counterparties.

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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 estimated net amount of unrealized gains or losses on interest rate cash flow hedges as of the balance sheet date expected to be reclassified to earnings within the next twelve months.

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