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Business confidence rise in Germany and strong earnings from corporate America was enough to send the Dow Jones Industrial Average up one half a percentage point, +0.65, to end the week at 13,029.19. The Nasdaq lost -0.24 percent to close at 3000.45, while the S&P gained +0.12 percent, to 1378.53. The Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite rose +1.56 percent to close at 1035.4. CNNMoney tells MHProNews.com most all the housing stocks we track closed up. Cavco gained the most of tracked stocks, moving up +4.42% percent, +1.94, to end the trading day at 45.84. Only two of our tracked stocks lost, and neither fell over one-half a percentage point. Affiliated Managers Group 111.55 -0.46 (-0.41%). Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway 18,580 -470.00 (-0.39%). Champion, Liberty Homes, Deer Valley and Palm Harbor all remained unchanged. Drew Industries 27.47 +0.38 (+1.40%). Equity Lifestyle Properties 67.12 +0.66 (+0.99%). Louisiana Pacific Corp. 8.18 +0.02 (+0.25%). Nobility Homes was unchanged at 7.03. Patrick Industries 9.14 -0.01 (-0.11%). Skyline Corp. 5.76 +0.10 (+1.77%). Sun Communities 42.49 +0.43 (+1.02%). Third Avenue Value Fund (4-19) 45.30 +0.06 (+0.13%). UMH Properties 11.58 +0.09 (+0.78%). Universal Forest Product 35.00 +0.02 (+0.06%).

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