Across the Tasman, Moody’s Ratings downgraded New Zealand’s fiscal outlook to negative, citing persistent inflation and global uncertainty. The move immediately became political ammunition, with National and Labour each blaming the other for the deterioration.
The downgrade reflects a broader pattern of fiscal stress facing small, open economies caught between rising costs at home and turbulence in global trade — a turbulence partly driven by the very NATO and tariff disputes playing out elsewhere in the news cycle.
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