With the current trading band of +/-3 percent, the ceiling rate applicable tocommercial banks during the day is 23,789 VND/USD and the floor rate 22,403VND/USD.
The opening-hour rates at commercial banks rose.
At 8:40am, Vietcombank listed the buying rate at 22,510 VND/USD and the sellingrate at 22,820 VND/USD, both up 10 VND from February 11.
BIDV raised the buying rate by 20 VND to 22,550 VND/USD and the selling rate by15 VND to 22,830 VND/USD.
During the week from February 7-11, the dailyreference exchange rate was down on Monday but then followed an upward trend inthe next three days before turning around to drop on Friday. It ended the weekup 9 VND compared to the beginning of the week./