Wall Street Makes Soft Gains As Traders Eye Georgia Elections

12:10 pm: Stocks higher, albeit modestly, at midday The Dow was up 69 points, 0.2%, at 30,293 just at roughly noon after a brief dip into negative territory. The Nasdaq gained 67 points, 0.5%, to reach 12,766, and the S&P 500 picked up 17 points, 0.5%, to 3,718. “The Dow Jones and the S&P 500 are a touch higher today as politics will be in play,” CMC Markets UK analyst David…