Customers fill up banks to buy gold

At 2 p.m. an Agribank branch in HCMC’s District 1 saw dozens of customers queuing in the basement to await their turn to buy.
The bank, along with Vietcombank, VietinBank and BIDV, bought gold from the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) at VND78.98 million ($3,107.00) per tael and sold it at no more than VND79.98 million to retail customers, 1.2% lower than market prices.
This is the latest effort of the SBV to narrow the gap between domestic and global gold prices.

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