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Stock Incentive Compensation and Employee Benefit Plans (Schedule of Valuation Assumptions) (Details) - Performance Shares | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2015 | Dec. 31, 2014
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items] |  |
Expected volatility rate, minimum | 14.30% | 14.50%
Expected volatility rate, maximum | 14.40% | 18.60%
Risk free interest rate, minimum | 0.07% | 0.08%
Risk free interest rate, maximum | 1.02% | 1.65%
Expected term | 1 year |
Expected forfeiture rate | 0.00% | 0.00%

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- Definition The estimated measure of the maximum percentage by which a share price is expected to fluctuate during a period. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition The estimated measure of the minimum percentage by which a share price is expected to fluctuate during a period. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition The maximum risk-free interest rate assumption that is used in valuing an option on its own shares. + References No definition available. + Details
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