An employee counts U.S. banknotes at a bank in Hanoi. Photo by VnExpress/Giang Huy
The U.S. dollar fell against the Vietnamese dong on the black market Thursday morning.
The greenback plunged 1.05% to VND26,270. Vietcombank kept its rate unchanged at VND26,160.
Globally, a resurgent yen, runaway Aussie and steadily rising yuan had the dollar under pressure on Thursday and drifting toward a weekly drop, as investor focus turned to the next batch of U.S. labor and inflation data, Reuters reported.
A stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs report overnight briefly lifted the greenback. But traders are taking recent signs of U.S. economic resilience as cues for a broader brightening in global growth and are laying bets on Japan as a likely winner.
Against the dollar, the yen traded as strong as 152.55 on Wednesday, before steadying slightly below that at 153.05 per dollar on Thursday.
The rebound is nascent – since the yen has been declining for years – but it has been big enough to turn heads in the market.
