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Cash and Investments in Marketable Securities (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2017

Fair Value Disclosures [Abstract]

Cash and Investments in Marketable Securities, Including Cash Equivalents

Cash and investments in marketable securities, including cash equivalents, are as follows (in thousands):

		Estimated Fair Value at
		March 31, 2017				December 31, 2016
Cash and cash equivalents		$	23,480			$	59,640
Short-term investments			335,043				329,462
Long-term investments			3,493				—
Total cash and investments in marketable securities		$	362,016			$	389,102

Portfolio of Cash and Investments in Marketable Securities

Our portfolio of cash and investments in marketable securities includes (in thousands):

						Estimated Fair Value at
		Fair Value Hierarchy Level				March 31, 2017				December 31, 2016
Corporate notes and bonds			2			$	167,592			$	156,044
Corporate commercial paper			2				163,773				160,920
Obligations of U.S. government agencies			2				4,242				13,749
Available-for-sale investments							335,607				330,713
Money market funds			1				19,240				51,104
Certificate of deposit		N/A					2,930				2,930
Cash		N/A					4,239				4,355
Total cash and investments in marketable securities						$	362,016			$	389,102

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Schedule of cash cash equivalents and long term investments.

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Tabular disclosure of assets, including [financial] instruments measured at fair value that are classified in stockholders' equity, if any, by class that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis. The disclosures contemplated herein include the fair value measurements at the reporting date by the level within the fair value hierarchy in which the fair value measurements in their entirety fall, segregating fair value measurements using quoted prices in active markets for identical assets (Level 1), significant other observable inputs (Level 2), and significant unobservable inputs (Level 3).

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (b)
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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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