During the past four months, the Central Bank had sold 1,297,400 taels of gold, or 49.9 tons, out of 1.4 million taels, or more than 53.8 tons, that were up for auction.
On July 30, the price of SJC-brand gold dropped by VND320,000 per tael to VND37.7 million for buying and VND38.1 million for selling.
Commercial banks also lowered US dollar exchange rate by VND10-30 on the same day. On the free market, dollars were bought at VND21,420 per dollar and sold at VND21,440 per dollar, down VND10-30 per dollar.
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