CNNMoney reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average chopped up and down all day today as investors kept their finger on the European pulse while observing the debt committee. The Dow inched up 25.43 points, or +0.22 percent, to close at 11,796.16. The Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite Value fell 1.85 percent to close at 842.70. Tracked housing stocks closed mixed. Affiliated Managers Group 89.83 +0.86 (+0.97%). Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway 112,890 +1,190.00 (+1.07%). Cavco Industries 45.04 -0.69 (-1.51%). Champion, Liberty, and Palm Harbor were unchanged. Deer Valley slid the most of tracked stocks, at -6.25 percent, a loss of 0.03 to close at 0.45. Drew Industries gained the most of tracked stocks, adding 1.95 percent, to close at 21.92, +0.42. Equity Lifestyle Properties 61.80 -0.09 (-0.15%). Nobility Homes 6.62 -0.36 (-5.16%). Patrick Industries 2.65 +0.03 (1.15%). Skyline Corporation 6.53 -0.10 (-1.51%). Sun Communities 36.19 +0.08 (+0.22%). Third Avenue Value Fund (11-17) 41.42 -0.71 (-1.69%). UMH Properties was unchanged at 9.50. Universal Forest Products, Inc. 26.23 +0.14 (+0.54%).
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