WELLINGTON -- New Zealand's central bank this week is expected to announce plans to unleash a torrent of cheap money into the financial system -- and reiterate the possibility of negative interest rates early next year -- as it braces for further consequences from the COVID-19 pandemic.
But in the nation's streets, there is hardly a face mask to be seen, shops and bars are buzzing with life and containers of New Zealand's agricultural exports continue to be loaded on ships heading for export markets.
