NZ Trade Balance for March 2019 comes in at NZD 922m

  • expected 131m, prior was 12m

exports 5.70bn, a noce beat indeed

  • expected 5.30bn, prior 4.82bn
  • record high exports (previously held by the December 2017 month)

imports 4.77bn, a miss and will be taken as a negative reading on the state of domestic consumption

  • expected 5.15bn, prior 4.80bn

Swings and roundabouts these results.