With the current trading band of +/-3 percent, theceiling rate applicable to commercial banks during the day is 24,023 VND/USDand the floor rate 22,624 VND/USD.
On the contrary, the opening-hour rates at manycommercial banks dropped.
At 8:27am, BIDV listed the buying rate at 23,565VND/USD and the selling rate at 23,845 VND/USD, both down 5 VND from the end ofSeptember 22.
Meanwhile, Vietcombank kept both rates unchangedat 23,535 VND/USD (buying) and 23,845 VND/USD (selling).
During the week from September 19-23, thereference exchange rate mostly followed an upward trend. It ended the week up 29VND./.