If the US stock market is like a giant stone wall whose structural integrity depends entirely on the sturdiness of five tech megacaps, it didn’t act like it on Tuesday.

Dell Technologies has sold one of its cybersecurity units, RSA, for $2.1-billion, part of the computer maker’s efforts to streamline its business.

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Consumer-price growth quickened to 4.5% from 4% in December, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday. The median estimate of 19 economists was for 4.6%.

It’s been a grim start to 2020 for some South African-listed technology companies, which have seen their shares battered on weak earnings updates and negative investor sentiment.

MTN South Africa said on Tuesday that it’s some making progress in fighting the scourge of cellphone tower battery theft, though the problem is far from being overcome.

South Africa’s Energy War Room, a grouping of the main cabinet ministers responsible for the power industry, will meet for the first time this week since being reconstituted by President Cyril Ramaphosa in December.

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