Mediocre earnings reports and a drop in durable goods orders of -5.7 percent in March left many U. S. stocks flapping in the breeze, going nowhere, as the three major indexes moved little or not at all. CNNMoney reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average slid -0.14 percent, -43.16 points, to end the day at 14,676.30. The Nasdaq edged up +0.01 percent, +0.32 points, to close at 3,269.65, while the S&P all but flat-lined, gaining +0.01 point to end the day at 1,578.79. The Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite moved up +0.89 percent to close at 1630.7. Housing stocks we track closed mixed or even. Patrick Industries gained the most of stocks we follow, advancing +5.59%, +0.85 points, to end the day at 16.05. Cavco Industries, Inc. slid the most of tracked stocks, falling -2.05%, -0.94 points, to finish the day at 45.00. Affiliated Managers Group 147.55 -1.48 (-0.99%). Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway 159,950 -30.00 (-0.02%). Champion, Liberty Homes and Palm Harbor continued unchanged. Deer Valley remained at 0.74. Drew Industries 35.29 +0.36 (+1.03%). Equity LifeStyle Properties 80.55 +0.56 (+0.70%). Louisiana Pacific Industries 18.40 +0.65 (+3.65%). Nobility Homes remained unchanged at 5.55. Skyline Corp. 4.58 +0.1999 (+4.56%). Sun Communities, Inc. 48.83 -0.16 (-0.33%). Third Avenue Value Fund (April 23) 53.21 +0.43 (+0.81%). UMH 11.02 +0.01 (+0.09%). Universal Forest Products, Inc. 38.90 +0.28 (+0.74%).
