NZD/USD — New Zealand Dollar US Dollar Live Price
NZD/USD Live Price Chart
1D and 5D plot 5- and 30-minute intraday candles; 1M–6M plot daily candles. Prices are indicative and may be delayed.
Period returns — 1D is the latest session move (the last completed session when the market is closed); 1W–1Y are computed from real daily closing history. Each window is shown only when its data is available.
Key Statistics
Technical Summary
4 of 5 signals read sell.
Computed from real daily price history (RSI 14, SMA 20/50/200, MACD 12/26/9) · as of Sep 11, 10:33 UTC. Not investment advice.
About NZD/USD
NZD/USD quotes the New Zealand dollar against the US dollar, and is written several ways that all describe the same instrument: NZD/USD, NZDUSD, "NZD USD", or simply the "Kiwi" — the nickname taken from the kiwi bird on the New Zealand one-dollar coin. NZD is the base currency and USD the quote currency, so the rate is the number of US dollars one New Zealand dollar buys. It is conventionally quoted to four decimal places, making one pip 0.0001; many platforms show a fifth decimal, which is a fractional pip rather than a full one.
New Zealand is one of the world's leading dairy exporters, so global dairy prices feed directly into its terms of trade, and the Kiwi shares the Australian dollar's sensitivity to Chinese demand and to broad risk appetite. It is the least liquid of the commonly traded majors, which can amplify its moves, and it typically tracks AUD/USD closely — the AUD/NZD cross is watched as a relative-value gauge between the two antipodean economies. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand also holds a notable place in monetary history as the first central bank to adopt formal inflation targeting, in 1990, a framework most major central banks later copied.
Because New Zealand sits at UTC+12 — UTC+13 during its daylight-saving months — it is one of the first financial centres to open each day, and the FX week effectively begins in Wellington while New York is still in Sunday evening. That makes NZD/USD one of the earliest majors to price weekend news, and it concentrates the pair's scheduled volatility in Asia-Pacific hours: RBNZ decisions, New Zealand inflation and labour-market data, and the GlobalDairyTrade auctions. Overall depth is still greatest during the London–New York overlap, when the dollar leg is most actively traded.
On the session, NZD/USD is trading at 0.5821, a move of +0.0015 (+0.26%) versus the previous close of 0.5806. The instrument has ranged between 0.5806 and 0.5825 so far today. FXMARE's technical engine currently reads the setup as Strong Sell.
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NZD/USD — frequently asked questions
What is NZDUSD?
NZDUSD is the same instrument as NZD/USD — the exchange rate between the New Zealand dollar and the US dollar, written without a separator the way most trading platforms and charting tools list it. NZD is the base currency and USD the quote currency, so the number shown is how many US dollars one New Zealand dollar buys. Traders also call it the Kiwi. One pip is 0.0001.
What is the NZD to USD exchange rate today?
This page shows the live NZD/USD rate with an intraday chart and the day's range. Because NZD is the base currency, the quote is already the NZD-to-USD conversion: multiply an amount in New Zealand dollars by it to get US dollars, and divide by the same rate to go the other way. The pair trades 24 hours a day on weekdays and is most active during Asia-Pacific hours.
Why is it written NZD/USD and not USD/NZD?
Market convention fixes the order rather than anything about the two economies. A short list of currencies is quoted ahead of the US dollar as the base — the euro, sterling, the Australian dollar and the New Zealand dollar among them — so the pair is NZDUSD, not USDNZD. If you need the dollar-based view, divide one by the NZD/USD rate; few platforms list USD/NZD as a separate instrument.
Why is NZD/USD called the Kiwi?
After the kiwi bird on the New Zealand one-dollar coin, which gave the currency its market nickname — NZD/USD, NZDUSD and "the Kiwi" all refer to the same pair. It is the least liquid of the commonly traded majors, which means it can move further on the same flow than EUR/USD or USD/JPY, and that is worth accounting for both in position sizing and in the spread you expect to pay.
What moves the New Zealand dollar?
Three things dominate: the interest-rate gap between the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and the US Federal Reserve, global dairy prices — dairy is New Zealand's largest export, so its terms of trade move with them — and broad risk appetite, since the Kiwi is a risk-sensitive currency that tends to fall when markets turn defensive. Chinese demand matters too, as China is a major buyer of New Zealand's commodity exports.
What hours does NZDUSD trade?
NZD/USD trades continuously from the Sunday-evening open in New York to the Friday close, with no exchange bell. New Zealand sits at UTC+12, or UTC+13 in its daylight-saving months, so Wellington is among the first centres to open and the pair often makes the week's first move. New Zealand data lands in Asia-Pacific hours, while the deepest liquidity and tightest spreads come during the London–New York overlap.
How much is one pip worth on NZD/USD?
Because the pair is quoted in US dollars, the pip value is fixed in dollar terms: one pip is 0.0001, worth $10 on a standard lot of 100,000 New Zealand dollars, $1 on a mini lot and $0.10 on a micro lot. A five-decimal quote adds a fractional pip worth a tenth of those figures. Your account currency then determines what that converts to on your statement.