US President Donald Trump has called India a country with a ‘dead economy.’

Despite India being one of the largest and fastest growing economies in the world, Trump lumped India in with Russia when criticising their economies.

Asia business correspondent Peter Lewis says that Donald Trump’s comments could affect the two countries’ trade.

He told Heather duPlessis-Allan that ‘It’s rather upended the relationship’

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There’s a view we're an international outlier with our labelling regulations.

The standards are under review from the Ministry for Regulation in its latest attack on red tape.

Minister David Seymour says the labelling codes seem overly restrictive.

He says for example, Chemist Warehouse has someone employed full time to check labels.

BusinessNZ CEO Katherine Rich told Mike Hosking it's an issue for overseas companies having to deal with regulations here that are nowhere else.

She says if you buy a bottle of French or Spanish wine, it'll have an ugly white sticker on it – that's because of rules that only apply here.

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2025 has been regarded as a challenging year for economic forecasting, with experts stumped about what decisions to make.

Traditional indicators have been regarded as contradictory, but one expert's developed a workaround.

Sam Dickie from Fisher Funds explains further.

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