Selected highlights from the week, as covered in the daily Ghost Mail newsletter.

Weekly summary of corporate finance activity by South African exchange listed companies.

Weekly summary of corporate finance activity by South African exchange listed companies.

In this update, we find the latest on De Beers and the other operations inside Anglo American. ArcelorMittal claims to be fundamentally different, but when will the profits come? Gemfields is being carried by emeralds. Mondi has suffered an ugly drop in margins.

Weekly summary of Merger & Acquisition activity by South African companies.

Growthpoint wants quality, not quantity. Nedbank's performance looks decent. Anglo American has unlocked important copper synergies. Optasia, Primary Health Properties and Schroder European Real Estate delivered important corporate updates.

Afrimat is a tale of two terrible halves. Investec wants to double its private banking business. Pick n Pay's group HEPS isn't telling you what is actually happening at Pick n Pay's core business. Updates also came in from 4Sight, Nampak, Netcare, Oceana, Sanlam, Spear REIT and Tharisa.

An enormous day of news saw 12 major corporate updates across multiple sectors, all covered in detail in Ghost Bites alongside the smaller Nibbles.