Dollar rises on black market - VnExpress International

Dollar rises on black market - VnExpress International

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Vietnam's black market premium signals capital controls doing what capital controls do: creating parallel pricing when official exchange rates become fiction. The dong has depreciated 8% officially this year, but if you need dollars and can't access them at State Bank rates, you pay what the market actually clears at — not what the central bank wishes it would.

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