Investors were uneasy in today’s trading, starting in the black but then fading to red, perhaps queasy about the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and the U. S. military speculating on air drops in Iraq. The Dow Jones Industrial Average nudged down -75.07 points, -0.46 percent, to end the day at 16,368.27, while the Nasdaq edged down -20.08 points, -0.46 percent, to close at 4,334.97. The S&P 500 slipped -10.67 points, -0.56 percent, to finish at 1,909.57, as CNNMoney tells MHProNews. The Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite slipped -1.05 percent to finish at 799.4. Stocks we cover closed mixed or even, although Sun Communities, Inc. edged up more than other stocks we follow, +1.20 percent, +0.64 points, to end the day at 53.94. Meanwhile, Skyline Corp dropped the most of tracked stocks, falling -8.05 percent, -0.38, to close at 4.34. Affiliated Managers Group 194.46 -0.32 (-0.17%). Cavco Industries, Inc. 70.19 -1.32 (-1.85%). Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway 194,001 +301.00 (+0.16%). Deer Valley Corp. remained at 0.66. Drew Industries 42.21 -0.33 (-0.78%). Equity LifeStyle Properties 44.11 -0.06 (-0.01%). Liberty Homes remained unchanged at 1.50. Louisiana Pacific Corp. 13.04 -0.45 (-3.34%). Nobility Homes, Inc. remained unchanged at 11.50. Patrick Industries, Inc. 40.53 -0.40 (-0.98%). Third Avenue Value Fund (Aug.6) 60.98 +0.10 (+0.16%). UMH Properties, Inc. 10.02 +0.03 (+0.30%). Universal Forest Products, Inc. 46.11 -0.18 (-0.38%). ##
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