As hope spread among investors that only one hurdle remained to Greece’s restructuring of debt, U.S. stocks picked up a little steam as CNNMoney tells MHProNews.com. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained +.55 percent, 70.61 points, to end the day at 12,907.94.The Nasdaq moved up +1.18 percent to close at 2,970.42, while the S&P gained +0.98 percent to finish at 1,365.91. The Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite gained +2.77 percent to finish at 885.8. All tracked housing stocks except Equity Lifestyle Properties and Skyline closed up, or even. Patrick Industries posted the largest gain, up 8.95 percent, +0.49, to close at 7.18, but Cavco Industries (+3.65%) and Louisiana Pacific (+4.42) also did nicely today. Affiliated Managers Group 107.06 +0.96 (+0.88%). Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway 118,430 +425.00 (+0.36%). Cavco 46.07 +1.62 (+3.65%). Champion, Liberty Homes, Deer Valley and Palm Harbor all remained unchanged. Drew Industries 26.99 +0.50 (+1.89%). Equity Lifestyle Properties 67.37 -0.84 (-1.23%). Louisiana Pacific Corp. 8.27 +0.35 (+4.42%). Nobility Homes was unchanged at 7.79. Patrick Industries 7.18 +0.49 (+8.95%). Skyline Corp. 7.01 -0.02 (-0.28%) Sun Communities 42.56 +0.41 (+0.97%). Third Avenue Value Fund (3-7) 45.52 +0.55 (+0.49%). UMH Properties 10.17 +0.02 (+0.20%). Universal Forest Products 32.20 +1.80 (+5.92%).
