here are the last 180 sessions of kimberly clark. the stock had been trending higher, but dropped off a cliff today, falling 6% on heavy volume. in addition to the earnings miss, the company lowered its outlook. another one to watch in this sector tomorrow is procter and gamble. p&g is due with earnings tomorrow. the stock got caught up in the selling pressure today, sliding 1%. global growth and promotion spending are two areas analysts say to watch. steel stocks saw sellers today as earnings cooled from strength earlier this year. this trio all reported results today. arcelor mittal slid more than 5%. it said high iron ore and coal costs will hurt its performance for the rest of the year. its c.e.o. said consumer confidence has deteriorated. u.s. steel fell more than 3%. it reported a loss for the quarter but, again, higher iron ore prices are hurting. and a.k. steel dropped 4% with a third quarter loss, and again pointing to higher ore prices. so, what about the iron ore business? the world's largest producer, vale, is out with ea

---la empresa "kimberly-clark" empeÓ a comercializarlos en el noreste del pais, en etapa de prueba...ma que cada aÑo se producen en estados unidos, 17- millones de tubos de carton, que equivalen a 160-millones de libras de basura.---aunque esta medida es positiva, los nuevos rollos aun estan lejos de ser 100 por ciento sustentables, pues solo tienen un 40 por ciento de papel reciclado.

margins were hurt by higher commodity costs, something we heard about yesterday from competitor kimberly-clark. shares squeezed out a small gain. they've been trading between $60 and $64 per share since last november. p & g finds demand "dampened" in the u.s. moving on, compellent technologies has been in focus since august when hewlett- packard and dell started their bidding war for cloud computing firm 3par. today, we saw just how good business has been for compellent. here are the last 180 sessions for compellent. today, it rocketed up by more than 32% to a new high. it was a record third quarter for earnings, and the fourth quarter projections came in better than forecast. shares were trading in the low teens in august. tonight? over $26 per share. and that's tonight's "market focus." the most profitable place for mutual fund investors this year has been precious metal funds, according to data from lipper, and the record rise in gold prices gets all the credit. tonight's "street critique" looks at the metal, and the companies that dig it out of the ground. rachel benepe is portfolio manage

the kimberly clark company is coming out with tubeless tp. it will roll out the new toilet paper on monday. it means no glue stuck to the last sheet. it is estimated 17 billion toilet paper tubes are produced each year creating 160 million pounds of garbage. the technology may also be adapted to the company's paper towels. if it works, other companies will follow suit. >> now you know. >>> now let's head out to the ballpark. >> larry beil is there live. what a game, larry. >> absolutely, dan. giants' manager bruce bochy had the understatement of the night saying this this wasn't quite the game we thought it was going to be. cliff lee shuts everybody down, right? huh-uh, not the giants, not tonight. the giants' offense erupt in a the giants' offense erupt in a game one world state budget cuts are crippling my classroom, so i can't believe the sacramento politicians cut a backroom deal that will give our state's wealthiest corporations a new billion dollar tax give-away, a new handout that can only mean larger class sizes and even more teacher

paper goomds giant kimberly clark on monday will begin testing sales of tubeless toilet paper.e cardboard tube inside. which, don't we have that already. i think they're called tissues, right? and does it really count as an invention if you remove parkle of an existing thing? it's inventing a car without tires. i don't like this. i know it might not seem like a big deal to most people but to a guy who spent 30 years of his life building his own village of toilet paper people, this is devastating. and i'm not the only one that isn't happy about it. at least one very powerful special interest group is lashing out. >> a message from the american society of gerbils. >> we are shocked and saddened to see that toilet paper rolls may soon be discontinued. toilet paper rolls are our own source of enjoyment in this miserable prison that you humans have relegated us to. without our rolls, we have nothing. fyi, the wheel is [ bleep ]. here's the deal. take away our rolls and we chew through your feet. capice? >> this has been a message from the american society of gerbils. >> jimmy: i'm w

. >> you wouldn't think there was any way to reinvent toilet paper but kimberly clark says it has found a way, the tubeless toilet paper roll. it will roll out the product. no tube means no glue to the last sheet. it's estimated that 17 billion toilet paper tubes create 160 million pounds of garbage. the technology may be adapted to the company's paper towels. you were pointing out how that's going to affect children. >> but how are kids going to do their art projects. they stick together with those toilet paper. >> a lot of school projects rely on that. the big cultural shift to paper towel rolls. >> cut 'em in half. >> i can see you're riveted. >> i just want to get away from it as far as possible. >> show you what's going on at sfo. it's 5:16. because of the clouds, there may be some flight arrival delays. most of the rain away from sfo. we'll show it to you and give you an idea how dramatic the line it santa rosa no rain whatsoever. ukiah half an inch. gives you an idea just how sharp this line is between rain and no rain. so let's take a look at temperatures. and let's talk about w

. >>> the company, kimberly clark, is making their scott's bath tissue a little more environmentallyfriendingly. they are experiencing with taking the roll out of the product. the holes are not perfectly round but will still fit over the holder. >>> one more time we want to check in with sal, see how the morning commute is winding down. >>> just a reminder to take transit to tonight's game. it's going to be very crowded. 880 still slow heading north. san mateo and dumbarton bridge recovering. to the bay bridge, still a 10- minute wait at the toll plaza. here's steve. >>> we do have rain to the north, lake county and northern sonoma. other us it's -- over us, it's mostly sunny. we'll continue that into friday. then another system comes in on saturday and clips us. weather looks better on monday and tuesday. >>> all right. sounds good. that will do it for us. as we go, we want to take you live to at&t park. there's mayor newsom doing more interviews. our coverage here begins at 4:30 for the world series. thanks for watching. >> bye now. man: empty nest? new kitchen, new us? woman: who