all that and more for nightly business report tuesday december 2nd. good evening, everybody, i m sue herrera. susie gharib has the night off. with the dow reaching an all time closing high on cyber monday, strong auto sales in november. learned about them today and an increase in construction spending in the month of october. spending on both public and private construction projects rose more than 1% that month. that was the largest gain since may helped by a boost in the building of new single family homes. now, here s how the major averages ended this turnaround tuesday. the dow up a big 102 points. the largest one-day gain in about a month. nasdaq a gain and s&p ended just shy of its own record high close. black friday promotions and a steep decline in gas prices putting the industry on pace for best year since 2003. detroit s big three did pretty well. chrysler sales shot up 20%, its best november in 13 years. general motor sales up 6.5%, much more than expected. sa
years. all that and more for nightly business report tuesday december 2nd. good evening, everybody, i m sue herrera. susie gharib has the night off. with the dow reaching an all time closing high on cyber monday, strong auto sales in november. learned about them today and an increase in construction spending in the month of october. spending on both public and private construction projects rose more than 1% that month. that was the largest gain since may helped by a boost in the building of new single family homes. now, here s how the major averages ended this turnaround tuesday. the dow up a big 102 points. the largest one-day gain in about a month. nasdaq a gain and s&p ended just shy of its own record high close. black friday promotions and a steep decline in gas prices putting the industry on pace for best year since 2003. detroit s big three did pretty well. chrysler sales shot up 20%, its best november in 13 years. general motor sales up 6.5%, much more than expec
new biography of napoleon. why do we need another biography of napoleon because you probably know how many there have been. i do. there are more books with napoleon in the title than days since his death. charlie: wow. the answer to your question is this scholarly organization brought out a complete set of volumes of all 33,000 letters that napoleon signed in his lifetime. so for the first time we have them all together chronologically, beautifully affrontated and we re able to see the way the man s mind worked, the compartmentalization of his mind, how he kept ten balls in the air at the same time. charlie: robin wright has written a piece in the new yorker magazine about syria. the free syria doesn t exist as one entity, it doesn t have one commander or one set of strategies, they don t really coordinate with each other. they re broken down into towns or cities or neighborhoods, and in trying to find a force that can fight either i.s.i.s. or the government in dama
castro s revolution. we had an ambassador who worked very hard in 1959 and 1960 to see if he could findñi common ground for co-existence. that didn t work. bonds were broken. after the missile crises there was an opportunity because the cubans were upset with the soviet union and president kennedy opened secret channels to see if there was a possibility of normalization. that dialogue ended with kennedy s assassination. rose: mike rogers, william leogrande and peter kombluh when we continue. rose: additional funding provided by: and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services world wide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. rose: joining me now from washington is mike rogers. since 2001 he has represented michigan s 8th congressional district, chair of the house intelligence committee for the last four years. in that role he séqis over swea broad sweep of investigation to some
even the european central bank. instead, it was the swiss national bank stunning currency markets around the world by removing the price ceiling on the swiss bank designed to keep its currency artificially low against the euro. that sent the value of the frank soaring and swiss stocks tumbling. today, the frank at 1 point up about 20% when it was all said and done against the euro. now, the defensive move comes ahead of an expected announcement from the ecb s mario draghi next week of a massive euro zone quantitateive easing plan like one in the u.s. the past few years. that would weaken the euro sending investors flooding into the frank. lisa boyason has more. she s in zurich. reporter: a swiss shock. there s simply no other way of describing what took place on the swiss markets. the swiss national bank coming through and surprising everybody by deciding to scrap a cap that s been in place preventing the swiss frank from appreciating above a certain level towards the euro.