Chris Trotter separates the Australian and New Zealand protest vote leaders, noting that Winston Peters simply doesn’t possess the repressed political rage of Pauline Hanson, or the ability to communicate it

China car exports flood global markets; helium access a new chokepoint; Japan PPI high & rising; eyes on yen; US data languid; freight rates rise again; UST 10yr at 4.56%; gold rises; oil holds on Strait closure; NZ$1 = 57.6 USc; TWI-5 = 61.5

Roger J Kerr says the prolonged period of NZ dollar weakness has given a major boost to our export sector with substantially higher export commodity prices. "We will now see NZD appreciation in its own right, returning all the currency cross-rates higher"

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