
With the current trading band of +/-3 percent, the ceiling rate applicable tocommercial banks during the day is 23,769 VND/USD and the floor rate 22,384VND/USD.
The opening-hour rates at commercial banks dropped.
At 8:30 am, BIDV listed the buying rate at 22,500 VND/USD and the selling rateat 22,780 VND/USD, both down 30 VND from January 20.
Meanwhile, Vietcombank kept both rates unchanged at 22,470 VND/USD (buying) and22,780 VND/USD (selling).
During the week from January 17-21, the daily reference exchange rate followedan upward trend on the first three days then turned around to drop on the lasttwo days. It ended the week 8 VND lower than the rate on Monday./.