Volume on the big board was light in approach of the holiday season, although all three major indexes did advance, modestly at best. CNNMoney reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained just +0.26 points, essentially +0.00 percent, to close at 16,072.80 points. The Nasdaq gained +0.58 percent, +23.18 points, to close at 4.017.75, while the S&P nudged up +0.27 points, +0.01 percent, to finish at 1,802.75. The Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite advanced +6.99 percent to close at 692.4. Housing stocks we track in today’s trading closed mixed or even. Cavco Industries gained the most of stocks we follow, +3.73 points, +6.20 percent, to end the day at 63.49, while Nobility Homes fell the most of stocks we follow, -4.04%, -0.40, to end the day at 9.50. Affiliated Managers Group 200.68 -0.21 (-0.10%). Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway 174,840 +1,529.00 (+0.88%). Deer Valley remained unchanged at 0.66. Drew Industries 52.76 +0.63 (+1.20%). Equity LifeStyle Properties 35.64 -0.26 (-0.72%). Liberty Homes remained unchanged at 0.51. Louisiana Pacific Corp. 16.44 +0.63 (+3.98%). Patrick Industries 30.41 +0.11 (+1.73%). Skyline Corp. 4.47 -0.08 (-1.76%). Sun Communities 40.66 -0.27 (-0.66%). Third Avenue Value Fund (Nov. 25) 58.56 -0.04 (-0.07%). UMH Properties 9.52 +0.11 (+1.17%). Universal Forest Products, Inc. 52.20 +0.80 (+1.56%).
