Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value

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Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value  
Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value

(4)   Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value

For assets and liabilities required to be reported at fair value, GAAP provides a hierarchy that prioritizes inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value into three broad levels. Level 1 inputs are quoted market prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that the reporting entity has the ability to access at the measurement date. Level 2

inputs are inputs, other than quoted market prices included within Level 1, that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly. Level 3 inputs are unobservable inputs for the asset or liability.

The Company's assets and liabilities measured at fair value are as follows:

Fair Value Measurements at

Fair Value Measurements at

 

September 30, 2024

December 31, 2023

 

    

    

Quoted

    

    

    

Quoted

    

 

prices

prices

 

in active

Significant

in active

Significant

 

markets for

other

markets for

other

 

identical

observable

identical

observable

 

assets

inputs

assets

inputs

 

Description

Total

(Level 1)

(Level 2)

Total

(Level 1)

(Level 2)

 

amounts in millions

 

Cash equivalents

$

666

 

666

 

 

726

 

726

 

Debt

$

289

 

 

289

 

219

 

 

219

The majority of the Company's Level 2 financial assets and liabilities are primarily debt instruments and derivative instruments with quoted market prices that are not considered to be traded on "active markets," as defined in GAAP. The fair values for such instruments are derived from a typical model using observable market data as the significant inputs.

Realized and Unrealized Gains (Losses) on Financial Instruments

Realized and unrealized gains (losses) on financial instruments are comprised of changes in the fair value of the following:

Three months ended

Nine months ended

 

September 30,

September 30,

 

    

2024

    

2023

    

2024

    

2023

 

amounts in millions

 

Equity securities

(17)

(2)

(19)

(19)

Exchangeable senior debentures

 

(19)

 

(24)

 

(34)

 

(37)

Other financial instruments

12

(4)

$

(36)

 

(14)

 

(53)

 

(60)

The Company has elected to account for its exchangeable debt using the fair value option. Changes in the fair value of the exchangeable senior debentures recognized in the condensed consolidated statement of operations are primarily due to market factors primarily driven by changes in the fair value of the underlying shares into which the debt is exchangeable. The Company isolates the portion of the unrealized gain (loss) attributable to the change in the instrument specific credit risk and recognizes such amount in other comprehensive earnings (loss).  During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company recognized less than $1 million and $45 million, respectively, of previously unrecognized gains, which was recognized through realized and unrealized gains (losses) on financial instruments, net on the condensed consolidated statement of operations. The change in the fair value of the exchangeable senior debentures attributable to changes in the instrument specific credit risk was a gain of less than $1 million and a gain of $1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively, and a loss of $38 million and a gain of $108 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively.  The cumulative change was a gain of $502 million as of September 30, 2024, net of the recognition of previously unrecognized gains and losses.