CNNMoney reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained some of the ground it lost yesterday as the Italian bond market was less of an ogre, and unemployment claims hit a seven month low. The Dow closed at 11.893.86, a gain of 112.92 points, or 0.96 percent. The Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite Value lost 0.69 percent to close at 863.07. Tracked housing stocks closed mixed. Affiliated Managers Group 90.25- +1.52 (+1.71%). Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance and other MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway 114,102.00 +777.00 (+0.69%). Cavco Industries 45.18 -0.15 (-0.33%). Champion, Deer Valley, and Liberty were all unchanged. Drew Industries 22.79 +0.64 (+2.89%). Equity Lifestyle Properties 62.77 -0.58 (-0.92)%). Nobility Homes was the biggest loser in our tracked stocks, falling -3.82% to close at 6.30, a loss of -0.25. Palm Harbor Homes registered the biggest gain of the day of tracked stocks, rising 100.00%, +0.002, to close at 0.004. Patrick Industries 2.57 -0.02 (-0.77%). Skyline Corporation 6.50 +0.03 (+0.46%). Sun Communities 36.60 -0.14 (-0.38%). Third Avenue Value Fund (11-9) 43.34 -1.28 (-2.87%). UMH Properties 9.67 -0.16 (-1.63%). Universal Forest Products, Inc. 26.48 +0.53 (+2.04%).
