{"id":432275,"date":"2026-06-17T05:50:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T22:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/06\/new-zealand-q1-current-account-deficit-narrows-sharply-on-quarterly-basis\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T05:50:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T22:50:45","slug":"new-zealand-q1-current-account-deficit-narrows-sharply-on-quarterly-basis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/06\/new-zealand-q1-current-account-deficit-narrows-sharply-on-quarterly-basis\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Q1 current account deficit narrows sharply on quarterly basis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>NZ Q1 current account balance (actual)<br \/>\n-NZ$1.008B<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nexp -NZ$0.967B, prev -NZ$5.984B<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">NZ Q1 seasonally adjusted current account<br \/>\n-NZ$4.552B<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nprev -NZ$4.452B<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">NZ year to March current account<br \/>\n-NZ$16.3B \/ -3.6% of GDP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">The sharp narrowing in NZ deficit will offer the RBNZ some modest comfort on external balance pressures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">I&#8217;ll have more to come on this separately <\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Q1 current account balance (actual) -NZ$1.008B exp -NZ$0.967B, prev -NZ$5.984B NZ Q1 seasonally adjusted current account -NZ$4.552B prev -NZ$4.452B NZ year to March current account -NZ$16.3B \/ -3.6% of GDP. The&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-432275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432275","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=432275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}