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What seemed like final climax of trade negotiations turned out to be another round of back-and-forth negotiations between Americans and Chinese (from last count, they are in 11th or 12th round of negotiations). Last Sunday President Trump surprised the world and markets with his tweet that US is going to put 25% tariffs from Friday May 10. Markets took the note and tumbled 2-4% across the world. While Chinese team did come to Washington to continue negotiations, on Friday US increased tariffs from 10% to 25%. Chinese reaction was relatively mild but future of further trade discussions is uncertain. Markets and companies were expecting that Trump and Xi will sign deal in May or at most by G20 summit in Jun. Now that's most unlikely unless both sides back off little bit in give-and-take of negotiations. Both sides are banking on their relative expertise and history. On one side we have president who wrote "The Art of the Deal" book while other side prides itself on legacy

In today's world of UI/UX, people don't normally talk about its original term of "GUI" which means Graphical User Interface. In App world, it's all about UI/UX. The first GUI based computer was invented in PARC in 1973. Apple later popularized it with MAC. Apple then changed GUI to UI/UX with iPhone introduction by unleashing the App world. Now most of the companies developing apps have separate groups focused solely on UI/UX! But let's talk about another GUI!   GUI of economy is about (GDP) G rowth, U nemployment and I nflation. And given recent Q1 numbers demonstrate that we are in "Goldilocks" economy - not too hot, not too cold. Let's look at: GDP Growth: On back of major market churn in Q4, 2019 started with fears of growth falling below 1%. Slowly as quarter progressed, growth forecasts got revised to 2%. However actual GDP growth came in at 3.2% which was much stronger than anyone (except may be markets) was expecting. The adrenalin