With companies only lukewarm about the remainder of the year amid tepid corporate returns for the third quarter, investors shied away from the tables, as the Dow hit a choppy road, and the three indexes moved only .07 percent or less. CNNMoney says the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained +3.53 points, +0.03 percent, to end the day at 13,107.21. Nasdaq advanced +0.06 percent, +1.83 points, to close at 2,987.95, while the S&P lost -0.07 percent, -1.03 points to close at 1,411.94. The Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite moved up +0.33 percent to close at 1173.3. Housing stocks we track closed mixed, mostly with little change, or even. Louisiana Pacific Corp. gained the most of tracked stocks, +1.22 percent, +0.18 to close at 15.54. Patrick Industries, Inc. fell the most of stocks we follow, -3.76%, -0.71, to end the day at 18.03. Affiliated Managers Group 124.14 -0.05 (+-0.04%). Cavco Industries 47.13 +0.20 (+0.43%). Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway 129,725 -857.00 (-0.66%). Champion, Liberty Homes, Deer Valley and Palm Harbor all remained unchanged. Drew Industries 31.36 -0.07 (-0.22%). Equity LifeStyle Properties 66.67 -0.65 (-0.97%). Nobility Homes remained unchanged for the second straight day at 5.15. Skyline Corp 4.45 +0.03 (+0.68%). Sun Communities, Inc. 41.60 -0.51 (-0.30%). Third Avenue Value Fund (Oct. 25) 49.02 +0.14 (+0.29%). Universal Forest Products, Inc. 37.13 -0.28 (-0.75%). UMH 11.09 -0.08 (-0.72%).
