With the current trading band of +/-3 percent, theceiling rate applicable to commercial banks during the day is 23,921 VND/USDand the floor rate 22,528 VND/USD.
The opening-hour rates at many commercial banks wentup.
At 8:40am, Vietcombank listed the buying rate at23,250 VND/USD and the selling rate at 23,560 VND/USD, both up 15 VND from July14.
Meanwhile, BIDV kept both rates unchanged at 23,275VND/USD (buying) and 23,555 VND/USD (selling).
During the week from July 11-15, the daily reference exchange rate for the USdollars was adjusted down on Monday but then up on all the remaining days. Itended the week up 55 VND./.
VNA