Asia cheered by post-election Wall St rally, dollar bounces

TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian stocks rose to a one-month peak on Thursday as investors, relieved to have moved past the U.S. midterm elections without any major political surprises, drove a Wall Street rally, while the dollar bounced and pulled away from 2-1/2-week lows.MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan gained 0.5 percent.Hong Kong's Hang Seng advanced 0.9 percent and the Shanghai Composite Index climbed 0.35 percent.Australian stocks rose 0.5 percent, South Korea's KOSPI ..