wall street stocks were mixed early monday as markets looked ahead to key inflation data and the midterm us elections investors are focused on thursdays consumer price index data which will be a key test of whether the federal reserves interest rate hikes have made a dent in inflation and whether the us central bank will feel the need to enact another supersized increase next month also on the radar tuesdays us elections are expected to shift at least one house of congress into republican control an outcome that investors generally like because gridlock in washington removes policy uncertainty as a risk about 20 minutes into trading the dow jones industrial average was up 03 percent at 3250350 the broadbased sp 500 gained 01 percent to 377370 while the techrich nasdaq composite index shed 03 percent to 1044429 among individual companies apple fell 15 percent after warning that chinas covid19 restrictions would pinch iphone production despite strong demand for apples products ahead of the holiday season we now expect lower iphone 14 pro and iphone 14 pro max shipments than we previously anticipated the company said on sunday