With the current trading band of +/-3 percent, the ceiling rateapplicable to commercial banks during the day is 23,812 VND/USD and the floorrate 22,425 VND/USD
Meanwhile, the opening-hour rates at commercial banks surged.
At 8:15am, Vietcombank listed the buying rate at 22,600 VND/USD and the selling rate at 22,830 VND/USD, bothup 40 VND from December 2.
BIDV raised both rates by 15 VND, listing the buying rate at 22,630VND/USD and the selling rate at 22,830VND/USD.
During the week from November 29 to December 3, the dailyreference exchange rate followed a downward trend for most of the week exceptfor Wednesday. It ended the week down 26 VND./.