Reference exchange rate kept unchanged on August 16
The State Bank of Vietnam set the daily reference exchange rate for the US dollar at 24,254 VND/USD on August 16, unchanged from the previous session.
Vietcombank’s pre-tax profit up 52 percent in six months
The Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) posted over 7.72 trillion VND (336.2 million USD) in pre-tax profit in the first half of 2018, up 52.7 percent year on year.