Following the release of New Zealand’s (NZ) Q1 GDP report, the country’s Finance Minister Grant Robertson noted that the biggest impact of the coronavirus impact will be in the second quarter of 2020.
NZ got a head start on recovery by opening economy quicker than forecast, Robertson added.
Market reaction
The kiwi dollar remains offered on a bigger-than-expected contraction in the NZ economy in Q1, with the above comments doing little to help the NZD bulls.
At the press time, NZD/USD drops 0.17% to 0.6442, having hit a daily low of 0.6436.