The Dow Jones Industrial Average got spooked early in today’s trading by worries about interest rates, dropping quickly to 16,750, then managing to close almost 100 points higher at 16,846.13, although still losing -21.38 points, -0.13 percent, as CNNMoney tells MHProNews. The Nasdaq slipped -0.71 points, -0.02 percent, to end the day at 4,379.05, while the S&P 500, which had been on a tear as it reached new highs, losing -2.31 points, -0.12 percent, to end at 1,957.22. The Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite edged down -1.29 percent to close at 1,041.1. While stocks we cover closed mostly up or even, Liberty Homes skyrocketed 87.50 percent, +0.70 points, to close at 1.50, while XXX slipped more than other stocks we track, -0.29 percent, -0.18 points, to close at 61.15. Affiliated Managers Group 200.55 -3.43 (-1.68%). Cavco Industries, Inc. 83.82 -0.20 (-0.24%). Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway 190,576 -84.00 (-0.04%). Deer Valley Corp. remained at 0.66. Drew Industries, Inc. remained unchanged at 49.39. Equity LifeStyle Properties 44.15 -0.18 (-0.41%). Louisiana Pacific Industries 14.74 -0.05 (-0.34%). Nobility Homes remained unchanged at 11.01. Patrick Industries 42.81 +0.77 (+1.83%). Skyline Corp. 4.03 -0.08 (-1.95%). Sun Communities, Inc. 49.71 +0.55 (+1.12%). Third Avenue Value Fund 61.46 +0.31 (+0.51%). UMH Properties, Inc. 9.90 -0.02 (-0.20%). Universal Forest Products, Inc. 48.23 -0.14 (-0.30%). ##

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