NZ dollar little changed after brief spike on Aussie jobs data

NZ dollar little changed after brief spike on Aussie jobs data
Jenny Ruth
By Jenny Ruth May 16 (BusinessDesk) - The New Zealand dollar ended the day little changed after spiking briefly against its Australian counterpart on mixed jobs data there. The kiwi was trading at 94.72 Australian cents at 5pm in Wellington, from 94.69 at 7:45am, but well down from the day’s high at 94.92 immediately after the Australian unemployment data was released. The New Zealand dollar was at 65.51 US cents from 65.59 this morning, while the trade-weighted index was at 72.06 points from 72.13. The Australian data showed the un...

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