The New Zealand dollar ended the day at almost the same level as it began, buying US63.80c around 5pm.
After being worth US63.79c shortly after 8am, the main action for the kiwi against the greenback happened late morning when the New Zealand currency dropped to around US63.55c, but the dip was short-lived.
At the weekend the New Zealand dollar reached a six-week high on overseas markets of US63.90c, as the US currency continued a slide that today saw it hit a seven-month low against the yen.
Across the Tasman, the Reserve Bank of Australia is thought to be mulling a hike to its 5.5 percent cash rate when it meets on Wednesday.
Despite that the kiwi barely moved against the Australian dollar during the day, buying A83.98c around 5pm from A84.05c this morning.
The TWI was at 63.85 around 5pm, from 63.78 this morning.
For the US dollar, last week's sharp slide capped a rough April.
The US currency fell about 5 percent against the Swiss franc and sterling -- the biggest one-month drop versus each currency since September 2003 -- and slid 4 percent against the euro and about 3.5 percent versus the yen.
The US Federal Reserve is widely expected to raise rates for a 16th straight time to 5 percent at its meeting on May 10 but then take a break to assess the impact of the repeated credit tightening.
By contrast, the European Central Bank is expected to press ahead with its own campaign of raising rates all year while the Bank of Japan is expected to bump up overnight rates as soon as July, in what would be the first hike in six years.
The following are Reuters currency rates:
5pm today 5pm Friday
NZ dlr US63.80c US63.36c
NZ dlr/Aust dlr A83.98c A83.94c
NZ dlr/euro 0.5052 0.5056
NZ dlr/yen 72.20 72.45
NZ dlr/stg 34.92 35.18
NZ TWI 63.85 63.78
Australian dollar US75.95c US75.49c
Euro/US dollar US1.2626 US1.2526
US dollar/yen 113.18 114.33
- NZPA
<EM>Currency:</EM> Kiwi ends day almost where it began
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