Concerns over the Chinese economy and how the crisis in Ukraine may affect global markets trumped a positive report on U. S. retail sales and a drop in unemployment claims, as the three major indexes all fell over one percent. CNNMoney reports the Dow Industrial Average dropped -231.19 points, -1.41 percent, to end the day at 16,108.89. The Nasdaq fell -62.91 points, -1.46 percent, to finish at 4,260.42, while the S&P dropped -21.86 points, -1.17 percent, to close at 1,846.34. The Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite slid -3.43 percent to close at 784.85. Housing stocks we track in today’s trading closed mixed or even, with Nobility Homes posting a gain of 5.91 percent, +0.65 points, to end the day at 11.65. Affiliated Managers Group fell the most of tracked stocks, -3.41 percent, -6.64 points, to finish at 188.23. Cavco Industries, Inc. 80.32 -2.58 (-3.11%). Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway 185,750 -2,000.00 (-1.07%). Deer Valley remained unchanged at 0.65. Drew Industries 51.30 -0.81 (-1.55%). Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc. 41.33 +0.33 (+0.80%). Liberty Homes remained steady at 0.80. Louisiana Pacific Corporation 17.01 -0.04 (-0.23%). Patrick Industries 42.39 -0.26 (-0.61%). Skyline Corp. 5.78 +0.19 (+3.40%). Sun Communities, Inc. 44.47 -0.11 (-0.25%). Third Avenue Value Fund (March 11) 56.28 -0.34 (-0.60%). UMH Properties 9.53 -0.03 (-0.31%). Universal Forest Products, Inc. 54.18 -1.30 (-2.34%). ##

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