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2004 Annual Report: Financial Review: Statements and Notes: Note 3 Trading Account Assets and Liabilities

Note 3

Trading Account Assets and Liabilities

The Corporation engages in a variety of trading-related activities that are either for clients or its own account.

The following table presents the fair values of the components of Trading Account Assets and Liabilities at December 31, 2004 and 2003.

  December 31, 2004 December 31, 2003   FleetBoston April 1, 2004
 
    December 31
 
FleetBoston
April 1, 2004
(Dollars in millions)
2004
   2003
 
Trading account assets        
U.S. government and agency securities $20,462 $16,073   $  561
Corporate securities, trading loans and other 35,227 25,647   353
Equity securities 19,504 11,445   2
Mortgage trading loans and asset-backed securities 9,625 8,221   2,199
Foreign sovereign debt 8,769 7,161   94
     Total $93,587 $68,547   $3,209
Trading account liabilities        
U.S. government and agency securities $14,332 $ 7,304   $   64
Equity securities 8,952 8,863   -
Corporate securities, trading loans and other 8,538 5,379   356
Foreign sovereign debt 4,793 5,276   -
Mortgage trading loans and asset-backed securities 39 22   355
     Total $36,654 $26,844   $  775


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