After dropping over 100 points in yesterday’s trading, investors hit the buy button and the Dow Jones Industrial Average regained +78.99 points, +0.47 percent, to end the day just shy of the 17,000 mark, at 16,985.61, while the Nasdaq moved up +27.57 points, +0.63 percent, to close at 4,419.03. The S&P gained +9.12 points, +0.46 percent, to finish at 1,972.83. As CNNMoney informs MHProNews, the Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite dropped -1.52 percent to close at 948.9. Stocks we cover closed mostly down or even, although Skyline Corp. shot up 4.14 percent, +0.179 points, to close at 4.50. Nobility Homes dropped more than other stocks we track, -3.33 percent, -0.37 points, to close at 10.75. Affiliated Managers Group 205.52 -0.18 (-0.09%). Cavco Industries, Inc. 83.10 -0.41 (-0.49%). Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway 193,040 +640.00 (+0.33%). Deer Valley Corp. remained at 0.66. Drew Industries, Inc. 49.29 -0.17 (-0.34%). Equity LifeStyle Properties 44.18 -0.27 (-0.61%). Liberty Homes remained unchanged at 1.50. Louisiana Pacific Industries 14.26 -0.09 (-0.63%). Patrick Industries 46.58 -0.01 (-0.02%). Sun Communities, Inc. 50.47 +0.03 (+0.06%). Third Avenue Value Fund (July 8) 61.93 -0.28 (-0.45%). UMH Properties, Inc. 10.08 -0.08 (-0.79%). Universal Forest Products, Inc. 47.86 -0.26 (-0.54%). ##

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