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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.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Topic 815
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Net fair value of all derivative instruments designated as fair value hedging instruments.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
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