Positive domestic corporate returns and good news from China’s factory activity lifted investors’ mood as all three major indexes gained in today’s trading. CNNMoney reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced +95.88 points, +0.62 percent, to end the day at 15,509.21. The Nasdaq gained +0.56 percent, +21.89 points to end today’s session at 3,928.96, while the S&P moved up 0.33 percent, +5.69 points, to close at 1,752.07. The Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite gained 3.34 percent to close at 914.5 Housing stocks we track in today’s trading closed mixed or even. Patrick Industries gained the most of tracked stocks, +6.91 percent, +2.10, to finish at 32.48. Skyline Corp. fell the most of stocks we follow, -1.13 percent, -0.05, to finish at 4.37. Affiliated Managers Group 201.32 +0.72 (+0.36%). Cavco Industries, Inc. 61.04 +1.64 (+2.76%). Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway 175,021 +421.00 (+0.24%). Drew Industries, Inc. 51.53 +0.18 (+0.35%). Deer Valley remained unchanged at 0.65. Equity LifeStyle Properties 38.30 +0.16 (+0.42%). Liberty Homes remained unchanged at 0.60. Louisiana Pacific Corp. 17.91 -0.05 (-0.28%). Nobility Homes remained steady at 9.30. Sun Communities, Inc. 45.70 +0.36 (+0.79%). Third Avenue Value Fund (Oct. 23) 58.62 -0.12 (-0.20%). UMH Properties 10.41 +0.03 (+0.29%). Universal Forest Products Inc. 51.08 +1.38 (+2.78%).

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