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Global regulators will fast-track work on finalizing a key benchmark to measure bank capital even as countries begin applying their own higher ratios, a top regulator said on Monday.

President Dilma Rousseff gained steam but remained locked in a dead heat for votes with challenger Aecio Neves ahead of Brazil's Oct. 26 presidential runoff, an opinion poll showed on Monday.

Last spring, U.S. Marine Corps Commandant General James Amos did not even know who Sheryl Sandberg was. Six months later he is good friends with Sandberg, the chief operating officer of social media company Facebook Inc (FB.O), a top advocate for empowering women to take on leadership roles.