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Earnings Per Share (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2012
Earnings Per Share Tables [Abstract] |
Earnings Per Share Basic And Diluted Table |
|  |  |  | Three Months Ended September 30,
|  |  |  | 2012 |  | 2011
|  |  |  | Income |  | Shares |  | $ per Share |  | Income |  | Shares |  | $ per Share
|  |  |  | (in millions except per share data)
BASIC EARNINGS PER SHARE |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Income from continuing operations attributable |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  | to The AES Corporation common stockholders |  | $ | (1,569) |  | 747 |  | $ | (2.10) |  | $ | (68) |  | 778 |  | $ | (0.09)
EFFECT OF DILUTIVE SECURITIES |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Stock options |  |  | - |  | - |  |  | - |  |  | - |  | - |  |  | -
| Restricted stock units |  |  | - |  | - |  |  |  |  |  | - |  | - |  |  | -
DILUTED EARNINGS PER SHARE |  | $ | (1,569) |  | 747 |  | $ | (2.10) |  | $ | (68) |  | 778 |  | $ | (0.09)
|  |  |  | Nine Months Ended September 30,
|  |  |  | 2012 |  | 2011
|  |  |  | Income |  | Shares |  | $ per Share |  | Income |  | Shares |  | $ per Share
|  |  |  | (in millions except per share data)
BASIC EARNINGS PER SHARE |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Income from continuing operations attributable |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  | to The AES Corporation common stockholders |  | $ | (1,155) |  | 759 |  | $ | (1.52) |  | $ | 360 |  | 783 |  | $ | 0.46
EFFECT OF DILUTIVE SECURITIES |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Stock options |  |  | - |  | - |  |  | - |  |  | - |  | 1 |  |  | -
| Restricted stock units |  |  | - |  | - |  |  | - |  |  | - |  | 3 |  |  | -
DILUTED EARNINGS PER SHARE |  | $ | (1,155) |  | 759 |  | $ | (1.52) |  | $ | 360 |  | 787 |  | $ | 0.46

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