Leading shares the United States "rebounding" (turned up) but technology shares fell on Thursday (Friday morning GMT), after the German parliament approved the bailout package vital new EU and U.S. economic data a little more positive. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 143.08 points (1.30 percent) to 11,153.98. The S & P 500 added 9.34 points (0.81 percent) to 1160.40, but the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index fell 10.82 points (0.43 percent) to 2480.76.

Technology stocks dragged by a decline in Apple's stock 1.62 percent and 3.16 percent decline in the Amazon, a day after Amazon launched its attack on Apple iPad with new tablets being sold for less than half the price of the iPad.