Political concerns about the future of Ukraine and worries about a downturn in the Chinese community kept investors away from the dance floor as the week saw a drop of about two percent in the value of the three major indexes. CNNMoney reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell -43.22 points, -0.27 percent, to end the day at 16,065.67. The Nasdaq lost -15.02 points, -0.35 percent, to finish at 4,245.40, while the S&P dropped -5.21 points, -0.28 percent, to close at 1,841.13. The Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite slid -1.05 percent to close at 776.58. Housing stocks we track in today’s trading closed mixed or even, with Drew Industries, Inc. posting a gain of 3.47 percent, +1.78 points, to end the week at 53.08; Patrick Industries advanced well also, gaining +3.37 percent, +1.43 points, to end at 43.82. Affiliated Managers Group slipped the most of tracked stocks, -1.68 percent, -3.17 points, to finish at 185.06. Cavco Industries, Inc. 81.61 +1.29 (+1.61%). Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway 183,860 -1,890.00 (-1.02%). Deer Valley remained unchanged at 0.65. Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc. 41.31 -0.02 (-0.04%). Liberty Homes remained steady at 0.80. Louisiana Pacific Corporation 16.97 -0.04 (-0.24%). Nobility Homes remained steady at 11.65. Skyline Corp. was unchanged at 5.78. Sun Communities, Inc. 44.58 +0.11 (+0.25%). Third Avenue Value Fund (March 13) 55.72 -0.56 (-1.00%). UMH Properties 9.55 +0.02 (+0.21%). Universal Forest Products, Inc. 54.51 +0.33 (+0.61%). ##
