6.5% over the last five days and clorox tonight said it is no longer being pursued by investor carl icahn, so the oakland company will remain as it was. >>> executives from fremont based solyndra were berated this morning by congressional leaders. they didn't have much to say. for over 90 minutes, the top two executives were criticized pointing out the taxpayers are footing the bill for the squandered $530 million loan. they stopped short of calling them liars and short of accusing them of pulling off a heist. when asked direct questions, the executives pleaded the fifth. ironically at the headquarters in fremont, a ray of hope for more than 1,000 people from the solar company, a job fair was held by ex employees, featuring other bay area green tech companies and they are hiring as the bay area solar industry continues to grow. >> it's always painful when there is a failure and you have this many people out of work. the reality of the fact, it is a very resilient industry. in very tough times, we're growing and hiring in all sorts of different fields. >> it's really a polarizing story her

the speculation today centered around the possibility carl icahn has been buying shares. icahn was successful in getting motorola to break up into two companies. the official start of earnings season is still a few weeks away, but drug store giant walgreen turned in better than expected results. profits were helped by the sale of its pharmacy benefits management unit. still, walgreen stock fell hard, down more than 6% as volume tripled. the worry is over walgreen's future business. at the end of the year, walgreen is due to lose a huge pharmacy customer, express scripts, and the negotiations don't appear to be any closer to a resolution. today's best stock sectors were those closely tied to the economy. the materials sector added 2%; industrials and energy gained about 1.5% each. we saw a continued rebound in some commodity prices-- oil popped more than 5%. silver bounced up 5% after its rout since the middle of last week. and copper was up 5% from multi- month lows. energy services firm transocean gave up earlier gains to end down more than 1%. transocean was one of the

investor carl icahn dropped his effort to take over the company's board of directors. icahn had offered $80 per share to buy the firm. and eastman kodak fell hard, losing more than a quarter of its value-- down to a new 52- week low. the company is tapping into a credit line, re-igniting worries the company is having money troubles. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> susie: boeing shares reached skyward today, rising 4% to $6,200 a share as the jetmaker handed over the keys to the first of its 787 dreamliners. japan's "all nippon airways" was the lucky first customer. it plans to start flying the fuel-efficient wide-body jet in november. today's delivery is three years overdue, after the dreamliner was plagued by production and design problems. with over 800 hundred orders stacked up, boeing has an ambitious goal: building ten 787's every month by the end of 2013. >> tom: shrinking 401k balances and falling confidence in stocks, thanks to the market gyrations since july-- that probably describes the reality for many investors. that brings us to tonight's "word on

but clorox tumbled on word billionaire investor carl icahn is stepping back from his bid to take overing bleach and burt's bees. now back to "hardball." >>> welcome back to "hardball." president obama hit the road over this past weekend, as he begins gearing up for his re-election, which he's already done. the president held fund-raisers on the west coast to pump up his base and he unleashed some of his harshest criticism to date on his republican challengers. obama even pushed back against his own supporters who have been critical of him, by challenging him directly. is this the obama liberals have been hoping for? alex wagner is an msnbc political analyst and david corn is the washington bureau chief of mother jones. alex, i haven't seen you in a while and i want your views on this. i've been in this business a long time and i don't know the answer. that's why i'm hitting you with it. is obama -- i'm going to get to this at the end of the show -- three trails he can take. does he go to the senate like clinton effectively in '96 with things like welfare reform and nafta and balancing