London, April 17 (BridgeNews) - The major European equity markets returned from the four-day Easter holiday with a bump as bad news from U.S. and European technology companies hit share prices. But markets staged a mild recovery in the afternoon to end the day well off the session's lows. At 1540 GMT, the FTSE Eurotop 100 Index was down 14 points, or 0.4%, to 3203.