With the current trading band of +/-3 percent, theceiling rate applicable to commercial banks during the day is 23,823 VND/USDand the floor rate 22,436 VND/USD.
The opening-hour rates at commercial banks stayedstable.
At 8:30 am, Vietcombank listed the buying rate at22,780 VND/USD and the selling rate at 23,090 VND/USD, both unchanged from May5.
BIDV also kept both rates unchanged at 22,810VND/USD (buying) and 23,090 VND/USD (selling).
During the week from May 2-6, after the twonational holidays at the beginning of the week, the daily reference exchangerate went down on Wednesday, stayed unchanged on Thursday before going up onFriday to end the week up 2 VND./.