The State Bank of Vietnam again raised the daily reference exchange rate on January 25 to 22,880 VND/USD, up 5 VND from the previous day.
With the current trading band of +/- 3 percent, the ceiling rate applied by commercial banks for the day is 23,565 VND/USD and the floor rate is 22,195 VND/USD.
The opening hour rates at commercial banks continued to stay stable.
Both Vietcombank and BIDV listed the buying rate at 23,155 VND/USD and the selling rate at 23,245 VND/USD, unchanged from the beginning of the week (January 21).
Both rates at Techcombank also remained unchanged at 23,135 VND/USD (buying) and 23,245 VND/USD (selling).
This week (January 21 to 25), the daily reference exchange rate kept rising throughout the week except for Thursday. It gained a total 10 VND during the week.
Meanwhile, the rates listed by commercial banks saw no changes from the beginning of the week.-VNA
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