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Reference exchange rate goes up

The State Bank of Vietnam set the daily reference exchange rate at 22,492 VND/USD on April 13, up 15 VND from the previous day.
Reference exchange rate goes up ảnh 1The daily reference exchange rate is set at 22,492 VND/USD on April 13 (Pghoto: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The StateBank of Vietnam set the daily reference exchange rate at 22,492 VND/USD onApril 13, up 15 VND from the previous day.

With the current trading band of +/- 3 percent, the ceiling rate applied to commercial banks during the day is23,170 VND/USD and the floor rate 21,726 VND/USD.

However, the opening hour ratesat major commercial banks saw no changes from April 12.

Vietcombank and BIDV maintainedtheir rates unchanged at 22,755 VND/USD (buying) and 22,825 VND/USD (selling).

The rates listed at Vietinbankalso stayed the same as on April 12, at 22,752 VND/USD (buying) and 22,822VND/USD (selling).

This week the daily referencerate was down for the first two days but then the trend was reversed with anupward adjustment on Wednesday. The State Bank kept the rate unchanged onThursday before raising it again on the last working day of the week. -VNA
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