Mortgage applications, growth in the U.S. service sector and private sector payrolls helped to boost the stock market today, but concerns about growth in Europe and Asia trumped the positive, leading to modest gains for the three major indexes. CNNMoney reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced +0.09 percent, +12.25 points, to close at 13,494.61, while the Nasdaq edged up +15.19 points, +0.49 percent to 3,135.23. The S&P gained +5.24 points, +0.36 percent to close at 1,450.99. The Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite advanced +1.99 percent to close at 1168.5. Several housing stocks we track finished the day having gained nicely, a few dropped, some were even. Deer Valley Corp. gained the most of stocks we follow, +7.14%, +0.05, to end the day at 0.75. Skyline Corp. lost the most of tracked stocks, -3.01 percent, -0.17, to close at 5.47. Affiliated Managers Group 121.14 -0.80 (-0.68%). Cavco Industries 48.77 +2.06 (+4.41%). Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway 134,065 +873.00 (+0.66%). Champion, Liberty Homes, and Palm Harbor all remained unchanged. Drew Industries 31.82 +1.02 (+3.31%). Equity LifeStyle Properties 69.03 +0.14 (+0.20%). Louisiana Pacific Corp. 12.79 -0.21 (-1.62%). Nobility Homes was unchanged at 5.70 Patrick Industries, Inc. 17.62 +0.63 (+3.71%). Sun Communities, Inc. 44.38 +0.19 (+0.43%). Third Avenue Value Fund (Oct. 2) 48.58 -0.05 (-0.10%). United Forest Products, Inc. 42.45 +0.40 (+0.95%). UMH 12.06 -0.01 (-0.08%).
