
With the current trading band of +/-3 percent, theceiling rate applicable to commercial banks during the day is 23,797 VND/USD andthe floor rate 22,410 VND/USD.
The opening-hour rate at commercial banks sawslight fluctuations.
At 8:25 am,Vietcombank listed the buying rate at 22,520 VND/USD and the selling rate at 22,750VND/USD, both up 5 VND from November 12.
Meanwhile, BIDV kept both rates unchanged at 22,545 VND/USD (buying) and 22,745 VND/USD (selling).
Last week (November8-12), the reference exchange rate followed a downward trend in the first threedays, then turned around to go up on Thursday and went down again on Friday. Itended the week 8 VND lower than the rate on Monday./.