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Vietnamese dong exchange rate quietly creeping up

The State Bank of Vietnam’s has set the exchange rate of the Vietnamese dong at 24,005 to the US dollar, which is an all-time high according to The Investor. Note that this rate is a peg and local traders are only permitted to trade VND in a band five percent either side. On the higher end, theoretically this could see the dollar hit VND 25,205.

Of note: The last time the Vietnamese dong was this high, was in October and November of 2022 after a series of interest rate cuts. After a series of rate hikes upward pressure saw the value of the dong spike over a matter of days. Around a month later it settled back down in the 23,000 to 24,000 range. This time, however, it’s been a slow and steady increase since around the start of April

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