Taxes, taxes, taxes are the big talk, but there are many reasons why manufactured housing (MH) professionals and investors need to be looking at what’s taking place in the oil marketplace.  Because as many retailers, communities, producers, and other vendors already know – oil jobs create more MH sales.

If you’re new, already hooked on our new spotlight feature – or are ready to get the MH professional fever – our headline reports are found further below, just beyond the Manufactured Housing Composite Value for today.

The evolving Daily Business News market report sets the manufactured home industry’s stocks in the broader context of the overall markets.

Part of this unique feature provides headlines – from both sides of the left-right media divide – that saves readers time, while underscoring topics that may be moving investors, which in turn move the markets.

Readers say this is also a useful quick-review tool that saves researchers time in getting a handle of the manufactured housing industry, through the lens of publicly-traded stocks connected with the manufactured home industry.

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Selected headlines and bullets from CNN Money:

• Atlanta airport mess: How does this happen?
• Employers steal billions from low wage workers
• Richardson will turn huge profit on Carolina Panthers
• ESPN president resigns over substance addiction
• The hacks that left us exposed in 2017
• Stocks surge as investors cheer corporate tax cut
• Twitter suspends Britain First account
• Here are the new tax brackets for 2018
• GOP tax bill: Here’s what people are saying
• ESPN staffers saddened by John Skipper’s resignation
• Backers of Panono finally get their cameras…for a price

 

Selected headlines and bullets from Fox Business:

• Stocks book record highs as tax vote looms
• Dow 25K for Christmas?
• Buffett’s latest milestone: Berkshire stock hits $300,000
• Oil gains on pipeline outage tempered by robust U.S. output
• Retail apocalypse: Women disproportionately impacted by job cuts, report says
• Is the XFL coming back? WWE addresses Vince McMahon’s rumored football reboot
• GOP tax reform could give Wall Street banks a lift
• Passengers killed when Amtrak train on new route derails in Washington state
• Disney ‘shrewd’ to protect ESPN with Fox deal: Bob Wright
• Bitcoin is a ‘social experiment,’ says ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Jordan Belfort
• Liz Weston: How to ‘death clean’ your finances
• Russia’s Kaspersky Lab sues Trump administration over product ban
• Amazon means massive consolidation for the entire retail industry: Fmr. Toys ‘R’ Us CEO
• FBI offered Christopher Steele $50K to confirm Trump dossier: Judge Napolitano

 

ICYMI – for those not familiar with the “Full Measure,” ‘left-right’ media chart, please click here. 

Today’s markets and stocks, at the closing bell…

S&P 500 2,690.16 +14.35(+0.54%)

Dow 30 24,792.20 +140.46(+0.57%)

Nasdaq 6,994.76 +58.18(+0.84%)

Russell 2000 1,548.92 +18.50(+1.21%)

Crude Oil 57.21 -0.09(-0.16%)

Gold 1,261.20 +6.90(+0.55%)

Silver 16.07 +0.09(+0.54%)

EUR/USD 1.1781 +0.0032(+0.27%)

10-Yr Bond 2.392 +0.037(+1.57%)

Manufactured Housing Composite Value

 

Today’s Big Movers

For all the scores and highlights on tracked manufactured home connected stocks today, see the Bloomberg graphic, posted below.

Today’s MH Market Spotlight Report –

Manufactured home companies – like UMH – have specifically “placed bets” on the shale revolution.  Asright-of-center Fox Business’ Liz McDonald has said, “you can’t move an oil well overseas.”

The CNBC report below spotlights a panel that walks viewers through the domestic and global moves that could be good for the U.S. oil business in 2018.

That in turn could be good for manufactured home producers, retailers, communities, developers, and all those that serve them.

 RBC’s Helima Croft: US shale production is going to come back in 2018 from left-of-center, CNBC.

An update on the status of the senators – where the margin for passage is the hinge for the GOP tax cut/jobs plan – is summarized by this CNBC video.

 

Three key senators yet to make decisions on GOP tax bill from CNBC.

 

Still from the top CNBC video, above.

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NOTE: the chart below covers a number of stocks NOT reflected in the Yahoo MHCV, shown above.

NOTE: Drew changed its name and trading symbol at the end of 2016 to Lippert (LCII).

 

 

Berkshire Hathaway is the parent company to Clayton Homes, 21st Mortgage, Vanderbilt Mortgage and other factory built housing industry suppliers.

LCI Industries, Patrick, UFPI and LP all supply manufactured housing.

AMG, CG and TAVFX have investments in manufactured housing related businesses.

Your link to a recent round of industry praise for our coverage, is found here.

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