Finance expenses
Finance expenses amounted to 3,303 million euros in 2017, 3,450 million euros in 2016 and 5,281 million euros in 2015.
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Interest expenses and other finance expenses: |
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Interest expenses and other costs relating to bonds |
1,100 | 1,162 | 1,621 | |||||||||||||
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Interest expenses to banks |
113 | 117 | 128 | |||||||||||||
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Interest expenses to others |
250 | 246 | 264 | |||||||||||||
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| 1,463 | 1,525 | 2,013 | ||||||||||||||
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Commissions |
91 | 95 | 140 | |||||||||||||
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Exchange losses |
759 | 467 | 1,158 | |||||||||||||
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Charges from fair value hedge derivatives |
— | 1 | 12 | |||||||||||||
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Reversal of the Reserve for cash flow hedge derivatives to the income statement (interest rate component) |
489 | 548 | 820 | |||||||||||||
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Charges from non-hedging derivatives |
22 | 64 | 75 | |||||||||||||
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Miscellaneous finance expenses |
256 | 221 | 360 | |||||||||||||
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| (A) | 3,080 | 2,921 | 4,578 | |||||||||||||
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Fair value hedge derivatives |
87 | 178 | 33 | |||||||||||||
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Underlying financial assets and liabilities of fair value hedges derivatives |
— | 45 | 117 | |||||||||||||
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Non hedging derivatives |
136 | 306 | 553 | |||||||||||||
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| (B) | 223 | 529 | 703 | |||||||||||||
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Impairment losses on financial assets other than investments |
(C) | — | — | — | ||||||||||||
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Total |
(A+B+C) | 3,303 | 3,450 | 5,281 | ||||||||||||
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of which, included in the supplementary disclosure on financial instruments |
1,606 | 1,903 | 2,788 | |||||||||||||
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