MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL One day before markets close for Thanksgiving US stocks stayed all but flat after some mixed economic news.   The University of Michigan and Thomson Reuters reported that the consumer sentiment reading for November came in at 82.7 from 82.6 in October when the consensus estimate was for it to rise to 84.5.   Meanwhile initial jobless claims for last week were in line with expectations falling to 410 000 from an upwardly revised figure of 451 000 the week before.   “We have this vacuum on the 'fiscal cliff'—that’s a mild positive under the market. Then ...