{"id":428757,"date":"2026-03-20T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/new-zealand-february-trade-deficit-narrows-exports-and-imports-both-beat-expectations\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T05:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:00:13","slug":"new-zealand-february-trade-deficit-narrows-exports-and-imports-both-beat-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/new-zealand-february-trade-deficit-narrows-exports-and-imports-both-beat-expectations-428757\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand February trade deficit narrows, exports and imports both beat expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p data-start=\"107\" data-end=\"346\">\nNew Zealand February trade data:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>balance -NZ$257M vs -NZ$740M expected (prev. -NZ$519M)<\/li>\n<li>imports NZ$6.89B vs NZ$6.20B expected (prev. NZ$6.73B)<\/li>\n<li>exports NZ$6.63B vs NZ$6.60B expected (prev. NZ$6.21B)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"348\" data-end=\"468\">Statistics New Zealand reported the annual trade deficit stood at NZ$3B.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand February trade data: balance -NZ$257M vs -NZ$740M expected (prev. -NZ$519M) imports NZ$6.89B vs NZ$6.20B expected (prev. NZ$6.73B) exports NZ$6.63B vs NZ$6.60B expected (prev. NZ$6.21B) Statistics New Zealand reported the annual&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}