The first full week of the New Year began with modest losses on the part of all three major indexes as investors started with cautious selling. CNNMoney reports the Dow edged down -44.89 points, -0.27 percent, to close at 16,425.10. The Nasdaq lost -0.44 percent, -18.23 points, to finish at 4113.68, while the S&P nudged down -4.60 points, -0.25 percent, to end the day at 1,826.77. The Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite fell -1.95 percent to close at 774.6. All housing stocks we track in today’s trading closed down or even, except Skyline Corp. which advanced +1.74 percent, +0.09 points, to close at 5.27. Universal Forest Products, Inc. fell the most of tracked stocks, -2.23 percent, -1.17 points, to close at 51.26. Affiliated Managers Group 213.46 -0.90 (-0.42%). Cavco Industries, Inc. 69.92 -0.76 (-1.08%). Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway 174,500 -1,836.00 (-1.04%). Deer Valley remained unchanged at 0.65. Drew Industries 50.45 -0.23 (-0.45%). Equity LifeStyle Properties 36.80 -0.13 (-0.35%). Liberty Homes remained unchanged at 0.75. Louisiana Pacific Industries 17.99 -0.35 (-1.91%). Nobility Homes remained unchanged at 9.01. Patrick Industries 29.18 -0.07 (-0.24%). Sun Communities, Inc. 42.18 -0.26 (-0.61%). Third Avenue Value Fund (Jan 3) 56.73 -0.13 (-0.23%). UMH Properties, Inc. 9.42 -0.01 (-0.11%).
