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A judge released fresh testimony on Monday alleging corrupt practices involving members of Brazil's leftist Workers Party (PT), whose candidate Fernando Haddad faces far-right lawmaker Jair Bolsonaro in this month's presidential election.

* GE to take roughly $23 billion non-cash charge on power unit

Canada's Bank of Nova Scotia (Scotiabank) will pay $800,000 to settle charges filed by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission that it engaged in spoofing in gold and silver futures contracts, the CFTC said on Monday.

Boris Johnson, Britain's former foreign minister, has told senior members of the governing Conservative Party he would delay Brexit by at least six months if he became prime minister, the Sun newspaper said on Monday.

Britain's Whitbread Plc said on Monday it would restructure management at its Premier Inn hotel chain, eliminating the post of operations manager at each of its nearly 800 hotels.

Thomson Reuters Corp said on Monday it had completed the sale of a majority stake in its Financial & Risk (F&R) unit to private equity firm Blackstone Group LP.

Three companies that provide cross-border payment services plan to use technology developed by startup Ripple that employs cryptocurrency XRP to speed transactions, the firms said on Monday.

* Brent crude in different currencies: https://tmsnrt.rs/2N67zl9 (Updates with closing prices)

A medical care unit of DaVita Inc has agreed to pay $270 million to resolve claims it provided inaccurate information about patients that caused Medicare Advantage plans operated by private insurers to obtain inflated payments from the government.

Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk did not admit liability in this weekend’s $20 million settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. But lawyers for shareholders suing Tesla in for securities fraud said the SEC’s case against Musk and his company will help the private litigation in at least...