Stocks are off to a slow start this year with muted trading due in part to the heavy snow that has tied up the east coast, keeping some traders off the floor in the holiday-shortened week. CNNMoney reports the Dow moved up +28.64 points, +0.17 percent, to close at 16,469.99. The Nasdaq lost -0.27 percent, -11.16 points, to finish at 4131.91, while the S&P edged down -0.61 points, -0.03 percent, to end the year at 1,831.37. The Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite gained +1.78 percent to close at 790. Housing stocks we track in today’s trading all closed up or even, except Third Avenue Value Fund (trailing Jan. 2) which fell -0.72 percent, -0.41 points, to close at 56.86. At the plus end, Equity LifeStyle Properties moved up +2.21 percent, gaining +0.80 points, to close at 36.93. Affiliated Managers Group 214.36 +0.98 (+0.46%). Cavco Industries, Inc. 70.68 +1.30 (+1.87%). Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway 176,336 +0.16 (+0.01%). Deer Valley remained unchanged at 0.65. Drew Industries 50.68 +0.17 (+0.34%). Liberty Homes remained unchanged at 0.75. Louisiana Pacific Industries 18.34 +0.09 (+0.49%). Nobility Homes remained unchanged at 9.01. Patrick Industries 29.25 +0.33 (+1.15%). Skyline Corp. 5.18 -0.01 (-0.19%). Sun Communities, Inc. 42.44 +0.46 (+1.10%). Third Avenue Value Fund (Jan 2) 56.86 -0.41 (-0.72%). UMH Properties, Inc. 9.37 +0.15 (+1.64%). Universal Forest Products, Inc. 52.43 +0.63 (+1.22%).
