v3.21.2
Trading Assets and Liabilities
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2021
Trading Assets and Liabilities [Abstract]  
Trading Assets and Liabilities
Note 5.
Trading Assets and Liabilities
Trading assets and liabilities include trading cash instruments and derivatives held in connection with the firm’s market-making or risk management activities. These assets and liabilities are carried at fair value either under the fair value option or in accordance with other U.S. GAAP, and the related fair value gains and losses are generally recognized in the consolidated statements of earnings.
The table below presents a summary of trading assets and liabilities.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     
$ in millions
    Trading
Assets
 
 
     Trading
Liabilities
 
 
As of September 2021
                
Trading cash instruments
 
 
$321,415
 
  
 
$150,763
 
Derivatives
 
 
71,583
 
  
 
53,506
 
Total
 
 
$392,998
 
  
 
$204,269
 
 
As of December 2020
                
Trading cash instruments
    $324,049        $  95,136  
Derivatives
    69,581        58,591  
Total
    $393,630        $153,727  
See Note 6 for further information about trading cash instruments and Note 7 for further information about derivatives.
Gains and Losses from Market Making
The table below presents market making revenues by major product type.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
       
    Three Months
Ended September
               Nine Months
Ended September
 
           
$ in millions
 
 
2021
 
     2020    
 
 
 
2021
 
     2020  
Interest rates
 
 
$(1,249
     $1,732        
 
$
  
(1,572
     $  3,784  
Credit
 
 
162
 
     578        
 
1,324
 
     3,571  
Currencies
 
 
1,779
 
     (981      
 
4,521
 
     (1,674
Equities
 
 
2,521
 
     1,391        
 
6,839
 
     5,022  
Commodities
 
 
716
 
     607    
 
 
 
1,984
 
     2,093  
Total
 
 
$ 3,929
 
     $3,327    
 
 
 
$13,096
 
     $12,796  
In the table above:
 
 
Gains/(losses) include both realized and unrealized gains and losses. Gains/(losses) exclude related interest income and interest expense. See Note 23 for further information about interest income and interest expense.
 
 
Gains and losses included in market making are primarily related to the firm’s trading assets and liabilities, including both derivative and
non-derivative
financial instruments.
 
 
Gains/(losses) are not representative of the manner in which the firm manages its business activities because many of the firm’s market-making and client facilitation strategies utilize financial instruments across various product types. Accordingly, gains or losses in one product type frequently offset gains or losses in other product types. For example, most of the firm’s longer-term derivatives across product types are sensitive to changes in interest rates and may be economically hedged with interest rate swaps. Similarly, a significant portion of the firm’s trading cash instruments and derivatives across product types has exposure to foreign currencies and may be economically hedged with foreign currency contracts.