Business NZ manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for March: 58.4 (prior was 56.5)

• Prior was 56.5, revised up from 56.2

• 19th consecutive month of expansion
• 8-month high

–

Earlier we had the ANZ Truckometer for March, falling a little.

And, well before that, we had the release of the FOMC minutes, which gave another boost to the NZD.