Stocks took a roller coaster ride, started out going up, retreated in the afternoon, went up enough for the Dow and the S&P to post modest gains, while the Nasdaq nudged down. The Dow Jones Industrial Average moved up +87.28 points, +0.53 percent, to finish at 16,448.74. The Nasdaq edged down -1.16 points, -0.03 percent, to end the day at 4,074.40 while the S&P advanced +6.03 points, +0.32 percent, to 1,869.43, as CNNMoney tells MHProNews. The Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite fell -2.50 percent to close at 698.10. Tracked housing stocks closed mixed or even in today’s trading. Louisiana Pacific Corp. was the biggest gainer of stocks we follow, nudging up +2.95 percent, +0.46 points, to end the trading day at 50.97. Skyline Corp. dropped the most of tracked stocks, -3.40 percent, -0.18 points, to close at 5.11. Affiliated Managers Group 179.52 -2.97 (-1.63%). Cavco Industries 77.43 -0.19 (-0.25%). Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway 191,400 +714.00 (+0.37%). Deer Valley remained unchanged at 0.65. Drew Industries, Inc. 50.01 -1.34 (-2.61%). Equity LifeStyle Properties 42.14 +0.83 (+2.01%). Liberty Homes remained unchanged at 0.80. Nobility Homes remained unchanged at 11.01. Patrick Industries, Inc. 41.37 -0.61 (-1.45%). Sun Communities, Inc. 45.11 +0.78 (+1.76%). Third Avenue Value Fund (April 25) 57.99 -0.50 (-0.85%). UMH Properties 9.88 0.03 (+0.30%). Universal Forest Products, Inc. 50.97 -0.43 (-0.84%) ##

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