With the current trading band of +/-3 percent, theceiling rate applicable to commercial banks during the day is 24,114 VND/USDand the floor rate 22,709 VND/USD.
On the contrary, the opening-hour rates at manycommercial banks dropped.
At 8:30am, BIDV listed the buying rate at 23,720VND/USD and the selling rate at 24,000 VND/USD, both down 10 VND from the endof September 30.
Meanwhile, Vietcombank kept both rates unchangedat 23,700 VND/USD (buying) and 24,010 VND/USD (selling).
During the week from September 26-30, the daily reference exchange rate for the US dollar followed an upward trend for most of the week, gaining 66 VND at the end of the week./.