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Percentage of Par Value of Federal Reserve Banks Restricted Stock Outstanding Capital Due to Federal Reserve Bank

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Percentage of Par Value of Federal Reserve Banks Restricted Stock Outstanding Capital Subject to Call

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Number of investment positions in available-for-sale investments in a continuous unrealized loss position for which an other-than-temporary impairment (OTTI) has not been recognized in the income statement.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 320

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 6

-Subparagraph (b)(3)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=27724398&loc=d3e27290-111563

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- References

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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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