With the currenttrading band of +/-3 percent, the ceiling rate applied to commercial banksduring the day is 23,841 VND/USD and the floor rate, 22,453 VND/USD.
The opening hour rates at some commercialbanks stayed stable.
At 8:25 am,Vietcombank listed the buying rate at 23,955 VND/USD and the selling rate at23,165 VND/USD, both unchanged from January 22.
BIDV also kept both rates unchanged at 22,975VND/USD (buying) and 23,175 VND/USD (selling).
Similarly, Vietinbank maintained the same rates as on January 22, at 22,925 VND/USD (buying) and 23,172 VND/USD (selling).
During the week from January 18 to 22, the daily referenceexchange rate fluctuated but ended the week down 4 VND./.
