Today, everyone from Wall Street to the City of London to Hong Kong was weighing reaction to the good but mixed U.S. data released last Friday.

The long, cold lonely winter in jobs growth ended with the April thaw. The U.S. Department of Labor released data today that was pretty much spot on predictions at an addition of 223,000 new jobs created.

After yesterday’s negative reaction in dollar trading due to the weak – nearly anemic – ADP private labor report, the U.S. dollar turned around almost 180 degrees today. The rise pushed gold lower.