By Chris Berry (@cberry1)

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If you’ve been watching financial news over the past week or perhaps reviewed your portfolio, you’ll know that something is amiss in the commodities world. By most accounts, commodity prices are at five year lows. Almost everything, from gold to silver to iron ore to wheat to corn is falling – hard.

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With Rachel Fox of FoxOnStocks.com

The highly anticipated Alibaba IPO $BABA debuted last Friday to a very positive reception from investors and traders.

To read more info on what exactly Alibaba does, read my blog from two weeks ago here: http://foxonstocks.com/alibaba-may-deserve-largest-ipo-history/

You’ll understand why Alibaba is a cross between Ebay, Amazon, & PayPal and you’ll read more about the issues Alibaba had to over come in order to make the IPO as successful as it was.

On Friday, $BABA began trading at $92.70 and closed the trading day at $93.98. The stock hit an intraday high of $99.70 and an intraday low of $89.95. However, the IPO price was $68… So how did $BABA open the trading day at $92.70?

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Banco Santander, S.A. enters into an Agreement to Acquire Carfinco Financial Group Inc. for CDN$298 million in cash

Carfinco Board recommends that Shareholders support the Transaction

MADRID, Spain and EDMONTON, Sept. 16, 2014  Carfinco Financial Group Inc. ("Carfinco") (TSX:CFN.TO - News) announced today that it has entered into an arrangement agreement (the "Arrangement Agreement") with Banco Santander, S.A. ("Santander") (CATS:SAN, NYSE:SAN, BATS-CHIXE:SANE) and Santander Holding Canada Inc. ("Acquireco"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Santander, pursuant to which each Carfinco shareholder will receive cash consideration of CDN$11.25 for each common share of Carfinco (a "Share"), representing total equity value on a fully diluted basis of approximately CDN$298 million.  The cash consideration that Carfinco shareholders will receive under the Arrangement represents a 32.12% premium to the 90-day volume-weighted average share price ending September 15, 2014 (the last trading day prior to the announcement of the Arrangement).  The Arrangement is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2014.

S&P Dow Jones Indices Announces Changes to the S&P/TSX Canadian Indices

Results of the Quarterly Review of the S&P/TSX Composite Index

TORONTO, Sept. 12, 2014 /CNW/ - S&P Dow Jones Canadian Index Services will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Canadian Indices after the close of trading on Friday, September 19, 2014: