With the current trading band of +/-5%, theceiling rate applicable to commercial banks during the day is 24,782 VND/USDand the floor rate 22,421 VND/USD.
At commercial banks, the opening-hour rates stayedstable.
At 8:30 am, Vietcombank listed the buying rate at23,260 VND/USD and the selling rate at 23,610 VND/USD, both unchanged from theend of January 12.
BIDV also kept both rates unchanged at 23,300VND/USD (buying) and 23,600 VND/USD (selling).
During the week from January 9-13, the daily reference exchange rate wasadjusted down at the beginning but then turned around to rise on Wednesday andThursday before declined again on the last day. It ended the week down 3 VND./.
