Big Blue's Big Bounce, and What Blew Housing Starts Down in September

In this Market Foolery podcast, Chris Hill, Jim Mueller of Stock Advisor and Motley Fool Options, and David Kretzmann of Motley Fool Rule Breakers and SuperNova consider just what in its quarterly report caused investors to bid IBM (NYSE: IBM) shares up 9% in a day. They also discuss the unsurprising news that U.S. housing starts were seriously dented by Harvey and Irma -- though not just by the hurricanes. And they dip into the mailbag to answer a couple of questions about always-exciting Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) and rarely mentioned 3M (NYSE: MMM).

A full transcript follows the video.

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