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Earnings Per Share (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2013
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Schedule Of Basic And Diluted Earnings Per Share |
|  |  | Three Months Ended September 30, |  | Nine Months Ended September 30,
$ in millions except share and per share amounts |  | 2013 |  | 2012 |  | 2013 |  |  | 2012
Net income (loss) |  | $ | 132 |  | $ | 7 |  | $ | 118 |  | $ | 598
Basic weighted average shares (1) |  |  | 192,711,608 |  |  | 193,879,994 |  |  | 193,440,078 |  |  | 193,760,654
Effect of common stock equivalents: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Stock options and warrants |  |  | 4,035,163 |  |  | 1,097,648 |  |  | 4,322,410 |  |  | 1,074,883
Diluted weighted average shares |  |  | 196,746,771 |  |  | 194,977,642 |  |  | 197,762,488 |  |  | 194,835,537
Net income (loss) per common share: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Basic |  | $ | 0.68 |  | $ | 0.04 |  | $ | 0.61 |  | $ | 3.09
| Diluted |  | $ | 0.67 |  | $ | 0.04 |  | $ | 0.60 |  | $ | 3.07
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(1) - Includes 4,349,481 and 5,524,396 of unvested restricted stock and units that receive nonforfeitable dividends or dividend equivalents for the three months ended September 30,
| 2013 and 2012, respectively. Includes 4,981,970 and 5,442,143 of unvested restricted stock and units that receive nonforfeitable dividends or dividend equivalents for the
| nine months ended September 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively.

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