Hanoi (VNA) – The State Bank of Vietnam set the dailyreference exchange rate for the US dollar at 23,171 VND/USD on March 8, up 12VND from the previous day.
With the current trading band of +/-3 percent, the ceiling rateapplicable to commercial banks during the day is 23,866 VND/USD and the floorrate 22,475 VND/USD.
The opening-hour rates at commercial banks remained stable.
At 8:25am, Vietcombank kept both rates unchanged from late March7 at 22,680 VND/USD (buying) and 22,990 VND/USD (selling).
BIDV also maintained both rates at the same level as at the end ofthe March 7 session at 22,705 /USD (buying) and 22,985 VND/USD (selling)./.