In the news from CNNMoney: Companies in the S&P 500 are expected to report their sales and profits for Q2 will be down 4.5 percent from a year ago. Greece submits economic reform proposal well ahead of Sunday’s meeting about possible bailout. The Labor Department reported applications for unemployment benefits rose 15,000 last week. Seventy-one percent of the world’s population lives on less than $10 a day.
Meanwhile, the Yahoo Manufactured Housing Composite Value (MHCV) advanced +1.75 percent to end the day at 695.7. Manufactured housing stocks we cover closed mixed or even. Nobility Homes gained the most of covered stocks, +5.76 percent, while Third Avenue Value Institutional dropped the most of stocks we follow, -2.03 percent.
On the Big Board:
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained +33.20 points, +0.19 percent to end the day at 17,548.62. The year-to-date change has seen the Dow drop -1.54 percent.
The NASDAQ moved up +12.64 points, +0.26 percent to close at 4,922.40.
The S&P 500 advanced +4.63 points, +0.23 percent, to finish at 2,051.31.
As of 4 PM ET, CNNMoney Finance tells MHProNews:
Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. (NYSE: AMG) $210.71 +1.91 (+0.92%)
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A) – parent company to Clayton Homes, 21st Mortgage, Vanderbilt Mortgage and other factory built housing industry suppliers – $207,740 +1,554 (+0.75%)
Carlyle Group (NASDAQ:CG) $27.44 +0.50 (+1.86%).
Cavco Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:CVCO) $75.90 +0.11 (+0.15%).
Deer Valley Corporation (OTCMKTS:DVLY) $0.65 0.00 (0.00%).
Drew Industries, Inc. (NYSE:DW) $58.02 -0.21 (-0.36%)
Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc. (NYSE:ELS) $55.41 -0.39 (-0.69%)
Killam Properties Inc. (TSE:KMP) $10.11 -0.04 (-0.39%).
Liberty Homes, Inc. (OTCMKTS:LIBHA) $0.02 0.00 (0.00%).
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation (NYSE:LPX) $16.13 -0.15 (-0.92%).
Nobility Homes Inc. (OTCMKTS:NOBH) $10.10 +0.55 (+5.76%).
Patrick Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:PATK) $38.05 +0.04 (+0.11%).
Skyline Corporation (NYSE:SKY) $3.02 +0.0448 (+1.50%)
Sun Communities Inc. (NYSE:SUI) $65.25 -0.14 (-0.21%)
Third Avenue Value Instl (OTCMKTS:TAVFX) $55.99 -1.16 (-2.03%).
UMH Properties, Inc. (NYSE:UMH) 9.94 -0.06 (-0.60%)
Universal Forest Products, Inc. (NYSE:UFPI) $50.82 (-0.21) (-0.41%). ##
(Graphic credit: CNNMoney)
Article submitted by Matthew J. Silver to Daily Business News-MHPronews.