CNNMoney reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained slightly today as investors’ fears eased about the European debt crisis. The Dow gained 17.18 points, or +0.14 percent, points to close at 12,096.16. The Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite Value closed up 1.25 percent to end the day at 879.9. Tracked housing stocks closed mixed. Affiliated Managers Group 92.78 +1.10 (+1.20%). Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance and other MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway 114,001.00 +80.00 (+0.07%). Cavco Industries 47.15 +0.90 (+1.95%). Champion, Deer Valley, Liberty, and Palm Harbor were all unchanged. Drew Industries 23.46 +0.29 (+1.25%). Equity Lifestyle Properties 63.18 +0.54 (+0.86%). Nobility Homes was the biggest loser of tracked stocks, falling -8.84 percent, or -0.63, to close at 6.50. Patrick Industries 2.31 -0.02 (-0.86%). Skyline Corporation 6.90 +0.18 (+2.68%). Sun Communities 37.14 + 0.39 (+1.06%). Third Avenue Value Fund (11-14) 43.01 -0.39 (-0.90). UMH Properties 9.47 +0.06 (+0.64%). Universal Forest Products, Inc., registered the biggest gain of tracked stocks, moving up 3.23 percent, +0.87, to close at 27.79.
