CNNMoney reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 276.10 points during the day to close at 11,955.01, a loss of 2.26 percent as Japanese intervention in the currency market caused the dollar to rise and U.S. stocks to fall. However, the month of October still has been the best since January 1987. The Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite Value dropped 2.58 percent to close at 840.30. Most tracked housing stocks fell. Affiliated Managers Group 92.61 -4.45 (-4.58%). Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance and other MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway 116,950.00 -3050.00 (-2.54%). Cavco Industries 44.77 -1.01 (-2.21%). Champion, Deer Valley, and Liberty were all unchanged. Drew Industries 24.03 -1.23 (-4.87%). Equity Lifestyle Properties 66.13 +0.81 (+1.24%). Nobility Homes 6.09 -0.66 (-9.78%) Palm Harbor Homes 0.004 +0.0018 (+81.82%). Patrick Industries 2.01 -0.04 (-1.95%). Skyline Corporation 6.76 -0.30 (-4.25%). Sun Communities 38.08 -0.35 (-0.91%). Third Avenue Value Fund (10-28) 445.23 +0.47 (+1.05%). UMH Properties 10.04 -0.26 (-2.52%). Universal Forest Products, Inc. 28.07 -0.87 (-3.01%).
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