Concerns over the business impact of the freshly struck federal debt ceiling limit deal in DC sent stocks tumbling yet again. The Yahoo! Manufactured Housing Composite index followed the broad decline, dropping -2.81% to close at 1019.30. Berkshire Hathaway, parent of Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, and other manufactured housing industry builders, finance and supply operations, sank -1850.00 (-1.65) to close at 110400. Cavco Industries moved down by -1.18 (-2.76%) to close at 41.58. Champion, Deer Valley and Palm Harbor remained unchanged. Drew lost -0.66 (-3.30%) closing at 19.34. Equity Lifestyle Properties (ELS) dipped -1.61 (-2.49%) to close at 63.17. Nobility Homes moved down as well, off -0.29 (-3.51%) to 7.98. Patrick move up by 0.09 (+4.13%) finishing at 2.27 UMH moved lower by -0.30 (-2.78%) to 10.48 at the bell. Skyline also dropped, -0.43 (-2.96) to finish at 14.10. Industry supplier UFPI moved down -1.615 (-5.58) to close at 27.35.
