Although the last day of October distinguished itself by the three major indexes turning slightly red (losing), in fact the Dow gained over three percent and the S&P 500 gained nearly five percent on the month. CNNMoney reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped -73.01 points, -0.47 percent, to close at 15,545.75. The Nasdaq fell -0.28 percent, -10.91 points, to finish at 3,919.71 while the S&P dropped -6.77 points, -0.38 percent, to close at 1,756.54. The Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite lost -5.35 percent to close at 839.5. Housing stocks we track in today’s trading mostly closed down or even although Skyline Corp. gained +3.40 percent, +0.15, to end the month at 4.53. Cavco Industries, Inc. fell the most of stocks we follow, -3.62%, -2.20, to end Oct. at 58.57. Affiliated Managers Group 197.44 -1.59 (-0.80%). Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway 172,810 -1,530.00 (-0.88%). Drew Industries, Inc. 50.31 -0.06 (-0.12%). Deer Valley remained unchanged at 0.65. Equity LifeStyle Properties 37.99 -0.11 (-0.29%). Liberty Homes remained unchanged at 0.60. Louisiana Pacific Corp. 17.21 -0.03 (-0.17%). Nobility Homes 9.25 -0.05 (-0.54%). Patrick Industries 31.25 -0.81 (-2.53%). Sun Communities, Inc. 44.57 -0.91 (-2.00%). Third Avenue Value Fund (Oct. 30) 58.13 +0.02 (+0.03%). UMH Properties 10.06 -0.22 (-2.14%). Universal Forest Products Inc. 52.93 -0.44 (-0.95%).

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