U.S. Adds 253K Jobs in April, Topping Expectations for 180K; Bitcoin Falls

While Friday morning’s headline jobs number is a strong one, downward revisions to February (to 248,000 from 326,000) and March (to 165,000 from 236,000) knocked a total of 149,000 in gains from those two reports. The average job gain over the past three months is 222,000.