The kiwi ended a big week today with a quiet local session, a dealer said.
At 5pm in Wellington the kiwi was buying US65.75c from US 65.36c at 5pm last night, having traded between US65.68c and US65.91c.
The aussie was buying US72.35c (US72.06c at 5pm yesterday.
Westpac chief currency dealer Basil Payn said it had been a quiet day after a big week. The kiwi has risen the best part of US2c in the last week as the greenback showed renewed weakness.
Mr Payn expected a reasonably quiet offshore session tonight with resistance at US66c likely proving hard to breach and good support at US65.30c.
Elsewhere, the euro was buying US$1.2416 (US$1.2355) , and the greenback was buying 107.93 yen (108.83).
On the other crosses the kiwi was buying A90.86c (A90.99c), 35.44 British pence (35.37), 0.5296 euro (0.5307), 71.06 yen (71.35), and 0.8038 Swiss francs (0.8058).
The trade-weighted index was at 65.99 (66.01), while the monetary conditions index was at plus 647 (648).
On the money market, 90-day bank bill yields were unchanged at 6.23 per cent. February 2006 bonds were at 5.98 per cent (5.99) July 2009s were at 6.04 per cent (6.06) and April 2013s were at 6.15 per cent (6.18).
- NZPA
<i>Currency:</i> Kiwi ends big week quietly
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