Regular readers please note there are a few tweaks to some of the standard portions of our evening market/investing report. Read carefully as some changes of the ‘standard text’ that follows before our left-right headlines and also in other features near the end of tonight’s reports.
Every evening our headlines that follow provide snapshots from two major media outlets on each side of the left-right news spectrum that reflect topics that influence or move investor sentiment. In moments on this business evening report, you can get ‘insights-at-a-glance.’
This report also sets the broader context for manufactured housing markets, in keeping with our mantra, “News through the lens of manufactured homes and factory-built housing” ©.
We begin with headlines left-of-center CNN followed by right-of-center Fox Business. We share closing tickers and other related data courtesy of Yahoo Finance, and more. 5 to 10 minutes reading this MHProNews market report every business night could save you 30 minutes to an hour of similar reading or fact-gathering elsewhere.
Perhaps more important, you will get insights about the industry from experts that care, but also dare to challenge the routine narrative that arguably keeps manufactured housing underperforming during an affordable housing crisis.
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Headlines from left-of-center CNN Business.
- Tiny cans, big sales
- Coca-Cola downsized its iconic drink — and customers couldn’t be happier
- We asked a hacker to try and steal our tech reporter’s data. She got it in seconds
- Dow sinks 250 points as Boeing’s stock tanks
- Benioff: Facebook must be accountable for fake ads
- Opinion: The GM workers’ strike probably isn’t worth it
- Johnson & Johnson stock falls after asbestos found in baby powder
- British luxury brands fight to keep US customers as tariffs hit
- Boeing’s latest 737 Max problems could come at huge cost
- World’s largest brewer says rival tried to steal its secret Bud Light recipe
- Jamie Dimon says Libra will never happen
- Swiss banks are charging millionaires to store their money
- Shopping Content by CNN Underscored
- Beats Solo Pro headphones pack a punch
- Apple may launch high-end AirPods Pro later this month
- Oracle CEO Mark Hurd has died. He was 62
- Google confirms Pixel 4 face unlock works with eyes closed
- Samsung: If you own this phone, remove your screen protector now
- Android 10 beta rolls out to some Samsung Galaxy phones
- Profits fell 56%, but the worst could be over
- A rare look inside Samsung’s secretive ideas lab
- Samsung admits defeat in China’s vast smartphone market
- CHINA’S ECONOMY
- China’s economic growth drops to lowest level since 1992
- Huawei’s smartphone sales and 5G business stay strong despite US hostility
- China’s answer to the Nasdaq might be starting to fizzle
- Oil companies like mine are paying for Trump’s trade war with China. It’s about to get worse
- Full Range Virgin Galactic and Under Armour Spacewear System for Private Astronauts
- Virgin Galactic’s Under Armour spacesuits
- Why this startup is making honeybees smarter
- The Made at Google 2019 event saw the release of new consumer products by Google such as the Pixel 4 smartphone.
- What you need to know about Google’s Pixel 4 smartphone
- Fortnite returns after two-day blackout
- South Park creators give 'official apology' after reports the show was scrubbed from the Chinese internet
- China censors a lot, from Winnie the Pooh to the NBA
- These employers don’t care when or where you work
- Marc Benioff says CEOs must be held more accountable — and pay more taxes, too
- It’s National Boss’s Day. Here’s how to have the best relationship with your boss
- Why it’s good for business to have a woman at the top
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Georgetown University, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
- Mark Zuckerberg gives speech depicting Facebook as at the center of struggle for free expression
- China says Apple CEO met top regulator in Beijing for a ‘deep discussion’
- Intel will release data on how much it pays women and employees of color
- A live demonstration uses artificial intelligence and facial recognition in dense crowd spatial-temporal technology at the Horizon Robotics exhibit at the Las Vegas Convention Center during CES 2019.
- India is trying to build the world’s biggest facial recognition system
- Mark Hurd, CEO of Oracle, has died at 62
- ‘A little disinformation goes a long way’: Inside the whistleblower lawyer’s fight against attempts to smear him and his client
- Five Disney fans could get $1,000 for binge-watching movies
- You can now stay in Barbie’s Dreamhouse. No, seriously
- BEYOND EARTH – How NASA’s Apollo program kicked off Silicon Valley’s tech revolution
- Jeff Bezos just sold $1.8 billion worth of Amazon stock. Here’s why
- Bill Nye’s experimental spacecraft that sails on sunlight declares mission success
- SpaceX’s massive Starship prototype lifts off
- Drones, apps and smart lockers: The technology transforming healthcare in Africa
- Look and feel good: How tech could save the fashion industry
- How ‘buy now, pay later’ companies are getting younger shoppers to use credit
- Why robots will soon be picking soft fruits and salad
Headlines from right-of-center Fox Business.
- WATCH: JPMorgan CEO says gov. ‘controlling companies is socialism’
- Hoover Institution Research Fellow Lanhee Chen provides his perspective on JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s speech defending capitalism.
- BOEING BOMBSHELL: Concerns over troubled 737 MAX jet go back years
- Expert predicts how this big endorsement will impact Bernie Sanders’ chances
- White House trade guru Peter Navarro predicts how US-China deal will go down
- WATCH: Trump touts US’ economic superiority over China
- HOLY MOLY: How much money these megachurches bring in across the US
- WATCH: These female astronauts just made history in space
- Meet the former auto exec Trump just nominated to be new energy secretary
- Talk show host makes shocking cocaine reveal to audience during show: report
- SEE PICS: Bentley CEO unveils ‘the fastest sedan in the world’
- This exec is latest parent set to plead guilty in college cheating scandal
- Alex Rodriguez theorizes about why the Yankees are losing so badly
- Varney: Alec Baldwin is ‘dead right’ about this
- Here’s how bad ‘wedding debt’ has gotten for average Americans
- Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd dead at 62
- 5 key moments from Mark Zuckerberg’s exclusive Fox News interview
- ‘South Park’ hoping for its streaming rights to head north of $500M
- Boeing shares drop on damning report alleging cover-up
- Following a sweet dream: This men’s magazine editor quit her job to start a bakery
- This obscure law could hit your wallet once it gets cold out
- WeWork’s utter collapse could have a severe downside for NYC real estate
- It’s a ‘dream job’: How you can get paid to watch movies
- Trump threatens legal action against CNN
- AI-powered drone racing may be the next big sport
- Google appoints its first chief health officer
- Why this NBA star will pay for shooting victim’s funeral
- Credit Suisse to hit wealthy clients with negative interest charges
- Cash is still king in the United States — but for how much longer?
- Lori Loughlin allegedly seeking Felicity Huffman’s jailhouse tips
- New Orleans to explode huge unstable cranes ahead of storm
- These TVs fill a whole room and could be the future of home entertainment
- WATCH: Mentalist shocks Stuart Varney with mind-reading trick
- Airlines over packing planes may present a danger to passengers
- Charles Schwab on the silent challenge facing 1 in 7 American kids
- EXCLUSIVE: WeWork needs a bailout and they could get one as early as Friday
- Here’s when the UAW workers will finally get back on the line at GM
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Tonight’s Business/Market/Political Impact Spotlight –
CNBC reported today on the rather curt announcement by the U.S. Supreme Court, found as a download at this link here, that they will take up a constitutional challenge to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Here are their topline bullets.
- The Supreme Court announces that it will hear a case challenging the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a regulatory agency established in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
- A decision in the case is likely by the end of June, meaning that the fate of the regulator will be announced in the middle of the 2020 presidential campaign.
- That could be particularly significant for Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a consumer advocate whose role in creating the agency has formed a central pillar of her presidential bid.
The name CFPB in manufactured housing ought to be nearly synonymous with the effort to change that law by the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), which was dubbed the Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act.
Preserving Access became a multiyear effort by MHI, pushed by Berkshire Hathaway brands 21st Mortgage Corp and Clayton Homes. The oddity, in hindsight, was that Warren Buffett favored the CFPB and those candidates that either put it in place or pledged to support the CFPB.
Rephrased, then Tim Williams chair of MHI led that trade group into a fight that was:
- After years of efforts, was never successful.
- Ended up driving out lenders from the manufactured housing sector, including S. Bank’s program, or the lending programs of operations like UMH Properties. UMH is one of the stocks tracked in our evening report, further below.
- Our publisher pointed out that the net effect of the battle over Preserving Access was black eyes with consumers as well as wearing out numbers of smaller operations that were hobbled by the regulatory burdens caused by the bill. L. A. ‘Tony’ Kovach called it a ‘Rope-a-Dope’ ploy.
- What eventually occurred with S. 2155 the industry could have obtained years previously, a factoid that only MHProNews reported.
The effort was ludicrous in hindsight, because MHI’s own SVP Jason Boehlert told MHProNews back then that it would not pass. Boehlert proved to be correct.
Tips regarding the entire ugly matter revealed as well what several state association executives told MHProNews. Namely, that they had their arms twisted in order to support the bill that they had little enthusiasm toward.
Pro-MHI industry professionals associated cheered the revelations by MHLivingNews that the CFPB and Prosperity Now – at the time known as CFED – had an interesting conflict of interest going.
Is there something similar currently afoot with Prosperity Now with respect to the GSEs and their Duty to Serve manufactured housing?
The oddities, contradictions, incompetence – or is it blatant corruption?! – linked between the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), Berkshire Hathaway brands Clayton Homes, 21st Mortgage Corp and others in what we call the Omaha-Knoxville-Arlington axis and their allies pops up on a routine basis. Coincidences?
Is the lack of enforcement of MHI’s code of ethical conduct also just a blip on the radar?
Why is manufactured housing underperforming?
Industry investors, SEC, FTC, CFPB, and HUD – possibly others – are reportedly or known to be examining issues related to some of the very firms noted herein. More clues are found under the related reports, a bit further below. Sometimes, where there is smoke, there is fire.
Perhaps the biggest surprise is that plaintiffs attorneys have not yet launched investigations aimed at some of the larger MHI connected firms akin to those that have dogged Cavco Industries 0 another firm we track in our evening report, further below – for much of the last year.
No one in the manufactured home industry trade media connects the dots, cites the sources, and does the evidence-based research like MHProNews. Perhaps that’s why we are the runaway number one? Thanks for being one of the many who make that statement true.
Stay tuned.
Related Reports:
Manufactured Housing Industry Investments Connected Closing Equities Tickers
Some of these firms invest in manufactured housing, or are otherwise connected, but may do other forms of investing or business activities too.
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- NOTE: The chart below includes the Canadian stock, ECN, which purchased Triad Financial Services, a manufactured home industry lender.
- NOTE: Drew changed its name and trading symbol at the end of 2016 to Lippert (LCII).
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Updated for Fall 2019…
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 each are suppliers to the manufactured housing industry, among others.
· AMG, CG, and TAVFX have investments in manufactured housing related businesses.
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Submitted by Soheyla Kovach, co-managing member of LifeStyle Factory Homes, LLC and co-founder for MHProNews.com, and MHLivingNews.com.
