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The New Zealand dollar may extend its decline this week as investors, nervous about the slow progress being made on Europe's escalating sovereign debt crisis, sell growth-linked currencies for the relative safety of the greenback.

Finance Minister Bill English said that compared to the pessimism in the United States, the New Zealand was in "pretty good shape."

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