U.S. stocks closed mixed today as investors watched reports from the beginning of the holiday buying season amid concerns abut the fiscal cliff and the Eurozone debt crisis. CNNMoney reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped -0.33 percent, -42.31 points, ending the day at just under the 13k mark at 12,967.37. The Nasdaq squeezed out a gain of +0.33 percent, +9.93 points, to close at 2,976.78, while the S&P fell -0.20 percent, -2.86 points, to close at 1,406.29. The Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite moved down -0.56 percent to close at 1182.9. Housing stocks we track closed mixed or even. Drew Industries gained the most of tracked stocks, +2.14%, +0.69, to close at 32.94. Patrick Industries fell the most of tracked stocks, losing -3.69%, -0.68, to close at 17.77. Affiliated Managers 128.19 -0.03 (-0.02%). Cavco Industries 49.35 -0.42 (-0.84%). Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway 132,411 -195.00 (-0.15%). Champion, Liberty Homes, Deer Valley and Palm Harbor all remained unchanged. Equity LifeStyle Properties 64.82 +0.33 (+0.51%). Louisiana Pacific Industries 17.61 -0.16 (-0.90%). Nobility Homes has remained unchanged at 5.30 since Nov. 21. Skyline Corp. 3.96 -0.04 (-1.00%). Sun Communities 38.48 -0.59 (-1.51%). Third Avenue Value Fund (Nov. 23) 48.61 +0.87 (+1.82%). United Forest Products, Inc. 37.55 +0.25 (+0.66). UMH 10.09 +0.02 (+0.20%).
