The US Senate ratified reforms to boost the representation of emerging economies at the International Monetary Fund as part of a budget bill that will clear the way for new industrial powerhouses like China and India to have more clout at the international lender. A sprawling budget deal to keep the US government operating through next September contained a measure to put Brazil, China, India and Russia among the IMF's top 10 shareholders and give emerging markets more influence at the global lender. The legislation will now go to President Barack Obama. Plans agreed in 2010 to give ...