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Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value  
Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value

(4)   Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value

For assets and liabilities required to be reported at fair value, GAAP provides a hierarchy that prioritizes inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value into three broad levels. Level 1 inputs are quoted market prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that the reporting entity has the ability to access at the measurement date. Level 2 inputs are inputs, other than quoted market prices included within Level 1, that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly. Level 3 inputs are unobservable inputs for the asset or liability.

The Company's assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis are as follows:

Fair Value Measurements at

Fair Value Measurements at

 

June 30, 2025

December 31, 2024

 

    

    

Quoted

    

    

    

Quoted

    

 

prices

prices

 

in active

Significant

in active

Significant

 

markets for

other

markets for

other

 

identical

observable

identical

observable

 

assets

inputs

assets

inputs

 

Description

Total

(Level 1)

(Level 2)

Total

(Level 1)

(Level 2)

 

amounts in millions

 

Cash equivalents

$

628

 

628

 

 

652

 

652

 

Debt

$

86

 

 

86

 

282

 

 

282

The Company's Level 2 financial liabilities are debt instruments with quoted market prices that are not considered to be traded on "active markets," as defined in GAAP. The fair values for such instruments are derived from a typical model using observable market data as the significant inputs.

Realized and Unrealized Gains (Losses) on Financial Instruments

Realized and unrealized gains (losses) on financial instruments are comprised of changes in the fair value of the following:

Three months ended

Six months ended

 

June 30,

June 30,

 

    

2025

    

2024

    

2025

    

2024

 

amounts in millions

 

Equity securities

$

(1)

(1)

(2)

Exchangeable senior debentures

 

(20)

 

(10)

 

(35)

 

(15)

$

(21)

 

(10)

 

(36)

 

(17)

The Company has elected to account for its exchangeable debt using the fair value option. Changes in the fair value of the exchangeable senior debentures recognized in the condensed consolidated statement of operations are primarily due to market factors largely driven by changes in the fair value of the underlying shares into which the debt is exchangeable. The Company isolates the portion of the unrealized gain (loss) attributable to the change in the instrument specific credit risk and recognizes such amount in other comprehensive earnings (loss). The change in the fair value of the exchangeable senior debentures attributable to changes in the instrument specific credit risk was a gain of $176 million and a gain of $92 million for the three months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and a gain of $229 million and a loss of $38 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.  The cumulative change was a gain of $742 million as of June 30, 2025, net of the recognition of previously unrecognized gains and losses.