NEW YORK: Wall Street stocks climbed Monday on the eve of the US elections, winning back a fraction of last week's rout that concluded the market's worst week and month since March.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average led the major indices, advancing 1.6 percent to 26,925.05.

The broad-based S&P 500 gained 1.2 percent to 3,310.24, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index increased 0.4 percent to 10,957.61.