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NZ dollar off lows on Aussie intervention; debt firm
Reuters - 2 hours 54 minutes ago
WELLINGTON, Nov 13 - The New Zealand dollar <NZD=> picked itself up from a two-week low on Thursday, buoyed by intervention by the Australian central bank, but remained under pressure amid growing risk aversion.
The kiwi had fallen more than 4 percent against the U.S. dollar to $0.5555, its lowest point since Oct. 29, in the offshore session, after U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson backed away from using a $700 billion bailout fund to clean up bank balance sheets.
But kiwi found a base in the onshore session as investors booked some profits after the yen's strong rise, and then benefited from a lift in the neighbouring Aussie dollar.
"The NZ dollar found a base in line with the Aussie following confirmation of the Reserve Bank of Australia's intervention," said RBC Capital Markets currency strategist Sue Trinh.
At 0400 GMT the kiwi was at $0.5611/21 compared with $0.5759/62 in late local trade on Wednesday. It ranged between $0.5545 and 0.5640 through the local session.
Australia's central bank earlier said it had intervened to support the Aussie currency in an illiquid market [nSYD366201].
However, sentiment towards the kiwi was not helped by local data that showed a pessimistic view of the current and future outlook for the New Zealand economy.
Data showed retail sales volumes 0.9 percent in the three months to Sept. 30, the third consecutive quarterly decline, backing views the recession has deepened. See [nWEL347218].
The latest real estate industry survey showed house sales were flat but prices rose slightly in October [nWEL000787], while manufacturing activity fell to a record low in the Business NZ latest perfomance of manufacturing index [nWEL996].
New Zealand's economic outlook also looked gloomier after the Treasury updated its pre-election forecasts showing larger government deficits, higher debt, and lower growth. See [nSYD354756].
"It was a very weak data flow -- consistent with our view the RBNZ will cut by at least 100 basis points in December, they are behind the curve in regards to the global slowdown," said RBC's Trinh.
New Zealand debt rallied for a third session with local bills <0#NBB:> now fully pricing in a 100 basis point rate cut at the RBNZ's Dec. 4 monetary statement.
The yield on the benchmark 90 day bank bill <NZ90DBB=RNZL>, which moves inversely to prices, was 23 basis points lower.
An auction of NZ$125 million of NZ government bonds was three times covered <NZDMO04>.
Bonds held their gains of previous days, with the benchmark 10-year bond <NZ10YT=RR> steady at 5.89 percent.
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