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COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS) (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2011
COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS). |
Comprehensive income (loss) |
|  | Three Months Ended June 30, |  | Six Months Ended June 30, |
(US$ in millions) |  | 2011 |  | 2010 |  | 2011 |  | 2010 |
Net income |  | $ | 312 |  | $ | 1,787 |  | $ | 547 |  | $ | 1,867 |
Other comprehensive income (loss): |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Foreign exchange translation adjustment, net of tax expense of $0 |  | 361 |  | (277 | ) | 658 |  | (391 | )
Unrealized gains (losses) on commodity futures and foreign exchange contracts designated as cash flow hedges, net of tax (expense) benefit of $0 and $(2) in 2011, $1 and $0 in 2010 |  | (1 | ) | (2 | ) | 3 |  | 1 |
Unrealized gains on investments, net of tax expense of $0 in 2010 |  | — |  | (1 | ) | — |  | (1 | )
Reclassification of realized net losses (gains) to net income, net of tax expense of $1 in 2010 |  | — |  | (1 | ) | — |  | — |
Pension adjustment, net of taxes |  | — |  | — |  | (2 | ) | — |
Other postretirement healthcare subsidy tax deduction adjustment |  | — |  | — |  | — |  | 2 |
Total comprehensive income |  | 672 |  | 1,506 |  | 1,206 |  | 1,478 |
Less: Comprehensive loss (income) attributable to noncontrolling interest |  | (6 | ) | 18 |  | (17 | ) | 19 |
Total comprehensive income attributable to Bunge |  | $ | 666 |  | $ | 1,524 |  | $ | 1,189 |  | $ | 1,497 |

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- Definition Disclosure of components of comprehensive income (loss) including, but not limited to: (a) foreign currency translation adjustments; (b) gains and losses on foreign currency transactions that are designated as, and are effective as, economic hedges of a net investment in a foreign entity; (c) gains and losses on intercompany foreign currency transactions that are of a long-term-investment nature, when the entities to the transaction are consolidated, combined, or accounted for by the equity method in the reporting enterprise's financial statements; (d) change in the market value of a futures contract that qualifies as a hedge of an asset reported at fair value; (e) unrealized holding gains and losses on available-for-sale securities and that resulting from transfers of debt securities from the held-to-maturity category to the available-for-sale category; (f) a net loss recognized as an additional pension liability not yet recognized as net periodic pension cost; and (g) the net gain or loss and net prior service cost or credit for pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans. + Details
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