Stock market news live updates: Stocks nudge higher ahead of midterms, CPI report

U.S. stocks rose modestly Monday morning as investors geared up for another week of potentially market-moving events: the Nov. 8 midterm elections and October consumer price data. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) advanced 0.3%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) gained 150 points, or roughly 0.5%. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) was up 0.4% after…