Asset Acquisition, Gain Recognized, Amount

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Financial Instruments Subject to Mandatory Redemption, Dividends Owed to Noncontrolling Interest

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Financial Instruments Subject to Mandatory Redemption, Dividends Owed to Noncontrolling Interest, Current Portion

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Amount of gain (loss) recognized on the income statement for financial instrument classified as a liability measured using unobservable inputs that reflect the entity's own assumption about the assumptions market participants would use in pricing.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (c)(1)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=66048111&loc=d3e19207-110258

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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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Other Liabilities (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	3 Months Ended	9 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
Other Liabilities (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	Sep. 30, 2017	Sep. 30, 2017	Dec. 31, 2016
Financial Instruments Subject to Mandatory Redemption by Settlement Terms
Gain on asset acquisition			$ 7.7
Redeemable financial liability			174.8
Gain (Loss) Included in Earnings	$ (73.3)	$ (202.9)
Other Current Liabilities
Financial Instruments Subject to Mandatory Redemption by Settlement Terms
Current portion of mandatorily redeemable financial liability			$ 33.7