NZ dollar holds gains against greenback

NZ dollar holds gains against greenback
Rebecca Howard
The kiwi was largely unchanged against the greenback after it lifted on positive US jobs numbers, but was capped by weak Chinese trade data. The kiwi was trading at 65.58 US cents at 8am in Wellington from 65.61 cents late Friday in New York. The trade-weighted index was at 72.49 from 72.50. The kiwi lifted when US non-farm payrolls data showed employers added 266,000 jobs in November versus the 187,000 expected in a Dow Jones survey of economists. The unemployment rate fell to 3.5 percent, its lowest level since 1969. The positive sen...

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