The leu opened at 4.53/4.535 per euro, near Thursday’s closing levels of 4.53/4.531 per euro.
At around 10:00 local time (GMT0800), the leu traded at 4.5285/4.5294 to the euro.
Thursday, the Romanian central bank set the leu’s exchange rate at 4.5281 per euro, higher compared with 4.5301per euro in the previous day.
On the money market Friday morning, overnight rates rose to around 1%-1.5% a year.