Stocks started the day slow but were energized in afternoon trading as corporate returns began trickling in, pushing the Dow to a new high. CNNMoney reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced +0.41 percent, +59.98 points, to end the day at 14,673.46. The Nasdaq gained +0.48 percent, +15.61 points, to close at 3,237.86, while the S&P advanced +0.35 percent, +5.54 points, to end the day at 1,568.61. The Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite gained +0.37 percent to close at 1556.9. Excepting two stocks, all housing stocks we track lost ground, or closed even. Third Avenue Value Fund (April 8) managed to squeak out a gain of +0.48 percent, +0.25 points, to end today’s session at 52.00. Skyline Corp. fell the most of stocks we follow, dropping -7.85%, -0.41, to end the day at 4.81. Affiliated Managers Group 151.01 +0.67 (+0.45%). Cavco Industries 44.70 -0.46 (-1.02%). Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway 157,570 -430.00 (-0.27%). Champion, Liberty Homes, Deer Valley and Palm Harbor continued unchanged. Drew Industries 35.73 -0.17 (-0.47%). Equity LifeStyle Properties 80.08 -0.05 (-0.06%). Louisiana Pacific Industries 20.52 -0.06 (-0.29%). Nobility Homes 5.50 -0.25 (-4.35%). Patrick Industries, Inc. 14.31 -0.30 (-2.05%). Sun Communities, Inc. 48.11 -0.19 (-0.39%). UMH Properties 10.68 -0.24 (-2.20%). Universal Forest Products, Inc. 37.12 -0.88 (-2.32%).
