in a july 15, 2009 s speech, the chairman, mary schapiro, stated more needed to be done to put disclosure of securities on par with the disclosure of corporate. i plan to work to request enhanced sec authority with respect to municipal securities disclosures so that investors in munis have the full complement of information they deserve about their investments. her comments were immediately followed by a more pointed speech on october 29 by commissioner walter entitled "regulation of municipal securities markets, investors are not second-class citizens," where she states investors deserve the same level of high quality disclosure protection in the municipal market as they currently get in the corporate market and should not have to be forced to rely on good faith voluntary disclosure, and as an added benefit, i believe that improved municipal disclosure will give taxpayers a better idea of what their elected representatives are doing with their tax dollars. since then, there has been a steady drumbeat by the sec and others about perceived shortfalls associated with municipal securities di

and we'll go through the resolution process and see what else we might learn from it. >> mary schapiro, thank you very much for joining us today. >> thank you. pricline getting a lot of attention in after-hours trading. solid earnings from the online travel site and its stock surged after the bell. we'll have more on that and the rest of the stocks in tonight's "market focus." early in the day, all of the sectors in the s&p 500 were in the red, but by the closing bell they were solidly in the green. health care and telecom were among the strongest sectors, industrials and financials the weakest performers. you can see the turnaround on the dow with this intraday chart, down sharply in the early going, with the comeback starting as european markets closed around midday. home depot was one of the dow's biggest gainers, up more than over 2.5%. r.b.c. capital boosted home depot from "sector perform" to "outperform." it believes spending on home- related activities has stabilized and is even improving slightly. h-d reports quarterly earnings november 15. the dow's big loser? alcoa-- falling