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Stocks on Wall Street finally returning experienced a significant rebound. Shares of technology sectors and industries dashed after Spain announced plans to mitigate the crisis.

Spain announced it would immediately cut the salaries of civil servants as part of efforts to tighten the budget. The move was announced a few days after the EU announced a bailout package of up to U.S. $ 1 trillion for the handling of the crisis.

“Security has to reconcile investors for some time,” said Chad Morganlander, manager of the portfolio of Stifell, Nicolaus & Co., as quoted from Reuters on Thursday (13/05/2010).

In trading Wednesday (12/05/2010), the Dow Jones closed up 148.65 points higher (1.38%) to the level of 10896.91. Index Standard & Poor’s 500 climbed 15.88 points (1.37%) to the level of 1,717,67 and the NASDAQ climbed 49.71 points (2.09%) to a level of 2425.02.

Technology stocks recorded the biggest reinforcement. IBM shares rose 4.6% was recorded after the release of its earnings projections will increase two fold by 2015. Intel shares also rose to 3.6% after earlier announcing the same thing. The Baidu Inc shares jumped 9.6% following a plan of China’s Internet search sites to do the 10:1 stock split. Shares of Freeport-McMoRan Copperd and Gold Inc. jumped to 3.9%, after gold prices surged to its highest point at U.S. $ 1249.20 per ounce.

Investors are also responding to the U.S. trade balance. U.S. trade deficit was recorded higher in March, higher than the record in December 2008. However, exports showed the highest jump since 2008.

“Increased exports are a sign of trade have improved. Trade deficit probably widened during March, but this is a positive report for the U.S. and global growth outlook,” said Nigel Gault, analyst at IHS Global Insight is quoted from the AFP.

However, quite thin trading, with transactions in the New York Stock Exchange reached 9.3 billion, below average last year reached 9.65 billion.