With the current trading band of +/-3 percent, theceiling rate applicable to commercial banks during the day is 23,840 VND/USDand the floor rate 22,451 VND/USD.
The opening-hour rates at commercial banks sawslight fluctuations.
At 8:25 am, Vietcombank listed the buying rate at22,695 VND/USD and the selling rate at 23,005 VND/USD, both up 5 VND from theclosing-hour rates on March 25.
Meanwhile, BIDV kept both rates unchanged at 22,730VND/USD (buying) and 23,010 VND/USD (selling).
During the week from March 21-25, the referenceexchange rate followed an upward trend on most days except for Tuesday. Itended the week up 5 VND./.