Incentive Compensation Plans Stock-based Compensation Awards (Details) $ / shares in Units, shares in Millions, $ in Millions	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2015 USD ($) $ / shares shares
Share-based Compensation Award [Abstract]
Incentive Compensation Plan Initiation Year	2014
Incentive Compensation Plans
Granted awards	3.7
Stock settled awards
Incentive Compensation Plans
Granted awards	0.8
Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value \| $ / shares	$ 22.04
Performance based awards
Incentive Compensation Plans
Granted awards	2.9
Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value \| $ / shares	$ 20.88
Cash awards
Incentive Compensation Plans
Performance Cash awards granted during the period target value \| $	$ 32.9
Restricted Cash awards granted during the period target value \| $	$ 1.2
Cash awards vesting period	3 years

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Incentive Compensation Plan Initiation Year

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Restricted Cash Plan - cash awards granted during the period target value

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Share-based Compensation Award [Abstract]

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Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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The number of grants made during the period on other than stock (or unit) option plans (for example, phantom stock or unit plan, stock or unit appreciation rights plan, performance target plan).

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The weighted average fair value at grant date for nonvested equity-based awards issued during the period on other than stock (or unit) option plans (for example, phantom stock or unit plan, stock or unit appreciation rights plan, performance target plan).

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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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