
Vietnamese commercial banks cut their USD buying and selling rates to 25,560 and 25,970 dong, the lowest in about a year and a half, marking the eighth straight day of declines. The State Bank of Vietnam's reference rate fell for a fourth session to 25,630 dong.
Free-market dollar rates edged up to 26,000-26,200 dong as year-end remittance inflows rose.
A firmer dong lowers the local-currency cost of dollar-priced feed imports such as soymeal and corn, while the expected dollar strength later in the year could reverse that effect.
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