Against the US dollar, however, the leu’s indicative lost 0.2% on the day at 3.144 units.

The leu opened at 4.336/4.338 per euro, from 4.328/4.33 per euro at Thursday’s closing. It later recovered some of the losses and traded near 4.33 per euro for the first half of the session.

On the money market, overnight rates were at 2.2%-2.7% a year, from 2.5%-3% a year Wednesday.