Clorox bid

Carl Icahn raised his offer for Clorox Co. yes terday to $80 a share, valuing the maker of the namesake bleach at about $10.7 billion, after his earlier bid of $76.50 a share was rejected.

WMG sold

Access Industries has completed its acquisition of Warner Music Group Corp. Access, a private conglomerate based in New York, is paying $8.25 a share for Warner, or about $3.3 billion.

Blue houses

Sales of previously owned homes dropped in June to an adjusted an nual rate of 4.77 million. Economists were expect ing a 1.9 percent rise to 4.9 million.

Charge!

American Express said profit rose 27 percent to $1.3 billion as credit-card spending climbed to a re cord and the firm trimmed funds to cover bad loans.

RIM shot

Ryan Bidan, senior product manager for Re search in Motion’s Play Book tablet computer, left for a job as director of product marketing for Samsung Telecommuni cations America, accord ing to his profile on LinkedIn.