With the current trading band of +/-3 percent, theceiling rate applicable to commercial banks during the day is 23,908 VND/USDand the floor rate 22,515 VND/USD.
On the contrary, the opening-hour rates at manycommercial banks rose.
At 8:30 am, BIDV listed the buying rate at 23,285VND/USD and the selling rate at 23,565 VND/USD, both up 5 VND from the end ofAugust 25.
Vietcombank raised both rates by 10 VND to 23,260VND/USD (buying) and 23,570 VND/USD (selling).
During the week from August 22-26, the dailyreference exchange rate for the US dollar generally followed an upward trendexcept for August 24 and 26. It ended the week down 10 VND./.