With half of the companies in the S&P 500 having reported third quarter financials and 75 percent of them are better than expected, according to what FactSet tells CNNMoney, the S&P gained +2.34 points, +0.13 percent, to set another record high at 1,762.11. Meanwhile, the rally from last week stalled for the Dow and the Nasdaq: The Dow Jones Industrial Average nudged down -0.01 percent, -1.35 points, to settle at 15,568.93; the Nasdaq slipped -0.08 percent, -3.23 points to end today’s session at 3,940.13. The Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite gained -2.95 percent to close at 895.8. Housing stocks we track in today’s trading closed mixed or even. Patrick Industries gained the most of tracked stocks, +4.52 percent, +1.45, to finish at 33.50. Cavco Industries slipped the most of stocks we follow, -0.84%, -0.51, to end the day at 59.89. Affiliated Managers Group 201.84 -0.70 (-0.35%). Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway 175,400 -35.00 (-0.02%). Drew Industries, Inc. 51.03 +0.04 (+0.08%). Deer Valley remained unchanged at 0.65. Equity LifeStyle Properties 38.38 -0.26 (-0.67%). Liberty Homes remained unchanged at 0.60. Louisiana Pacific Corp. 17.85 -0.06 (-0.34%). Nobility Homes remained steady at 9.30. Skyline Corp. remained unchanged at 4.45. Sun Communities, Inc. 45.43 -0.24 (-0.53%). Third Avenue Value Fund (Oct. 25) 58.12 -0.12 (-0.21%). UMH Properties 10.39 -0.02 (-0.19%). Universal Forest Products Inc. 51.41 -0.07 (-0.11%).
