US stock indices rose in early trading on Friday, despite the release of disappointing jobs data.
Data showed that the US economy has added 266,000 jobs during April, worse than forecasts of 990,000 jobs.
The US unemployment rate rose to 6.1% in April from 6% in March, while analysts forecast a drop to 5.8%.
Wall Street today is being lifted by a rebound in the tech sector, as Apple, Facebook and Tesla shares rose, thanks to strong earnings results in the first quarter.
As for stocks, Dow Jones rose 0.3% or 120 points to 34,668 as of 14:02 GMT, Nasdaq rose 0.9% or 125 points to 13,757, and S&P 500 rose 0.5% or 23 points to 4,225.