CNNMoney reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped steadily during the trading day as the Eurozone debt crisis worried investors again. The Dow inched a little higher toward day’s end, managing to stay above the 12,000.00 mark at 12,021.39, losing 162.87 points, or 1.34 percent. The Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite Value lost 4.92 percent to close at 791.9. Most tracked housing stocks closed up. Those that closed down lost little. Affiliated Managers Group 93.34 -2.51 (-2.62%). Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway 114,625.00 -1,610.00 (-1.39%). Cavco Industries 42.67% -1.28 (-2.91) Champion, Deer Valley, Liberty, and Palm Harbor Homes were all unchanged. Drew Industries 22.74 -0.28 (-1.22%). Equity Lifestyle Properties 62.72 -1.20 (-1.88%). Nobility Homes 5.91, -0.45 (-7.08%). Patrick Industries 3.88 -0.09 (-2.27%). Skyline Corp. slid the most of tracked stocks, falling 11.57 percent, -0.81, to close at 6.19. Sun Communities 33.90 -0.34 (-0.99%). Third Avenue Value Fund (12-09) 41.14 +0.48 (+1.18%). UMH Properties 9.13 -0.15 (-1.62%). Universal Forest Products, Inc. gained the most of stocks we track, gaining 2.39 percent to close at 29.18, a gain of +0.68.
