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Business Segments (Narrative) (Details) (USD $)
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Mar. 31, 2014
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Mar. 31, 2013
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| Segment Reporting Information [Line Items] | ||
| Number of Operating Segments | 4 | |
| Approximate market value | $ 8,800,000,000,000 | |
| Merger and strategic initiatives | $ 28,000,000 | $ 8,000,000 |
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Listing Services [Member]
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| Segment Reporting Information [Line Items] | ||
| Number of world wide listed companies | 3,400 | |
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- Definition
Approximate market value No definition available.
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Number of world wide listed companies No definition available.
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- Definition
This element represents acquisition-related costs incurred to effect a business combination which costs have been expensed during the period. Such costs include finder's fees; advisory, legal, accounting, valuation, and other professional or consulting fees; general administrative costs, including the costs of maintaining an internal acquisitions department; and may include costs of registering and issuing debt and equity securities. Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
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Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues. No definition available.
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