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This year’s Super Bowl matchup between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs is so evenly split that not even Wall Street can figure out who might have the upper hand.

(Bloomberg) — The Justice Department finds itself in a politically precarious situation as it decides whether to back Donald Trump against lawsuits over the US Capitol riot — and it’s asking a court for more time to make the call.

A UK-based salesman has won a payout from his former employer after his boss said he didn’t want a team full of middle-aged bald men.

Defense Department employees are downloading mobile applications to their work telephones that pose “operational and cybersecurity risks,” the department’s inspector general said in a report that stemmed from concern about the Chinese-owned video service TikTok and other messaging apps.

Representative Ro Khanna, a California Democrat who represents much of the Silicon Valley, said he plans trips to both China and Taiwan this year in an effort to stabilize the US-Chinese trade relationship and strengthen ties to the Taiwanese semiconductor industry.

The Bank of Canada wants to reinvigorate its interest-rate setting process, bringing an outside voice to the table next month amid a broader effort to bolster its credibility.

Actor Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures is discussing raising a fund dedicated to artificial intelligence investments, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

Orange SA is considering strategic options for its African and Middle Eastern mobile towers business, including stake sales, according to people familiar with the matter.

Investors are getting alarmed by the escalating fight over Brazil’s inflation targets — and they’re betting that the government’s drive for cheaper money will backfire.