Exchange Rate Moves and Currency News

Activity in the foreign exchange market

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Hawks help Kiwi spread its wings

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand keeps rates unchanged at 7.25% but Allan Bollard say “we are less confident that no further policy tightening will be required in this cycle”. The chart shown is the AUD/NZD plunging over the last five days from 1.1867 to 1.1365. The New Zealand Dollar also rallied against the United States Dollar and the Japanese Yen.