Analysts were expecting a new round of measures to support economic growth, but ECB’s chairman Mario Draghi said the bank will wait until next quarter before announcing new steps.
At Bucharest closing time, the Hungarian forint was down 0.2% against the euro, while the Polish zloty was losing 0.3%.
The leu closed at 4.4312 to the euro, from 4.427 to the euro at Wednesday close. In the morning, the leu gained some grouns, reaching an early high at 4.425 per euro, but the currency switched trend in the afternoon and touched the day’s low at 4.433 per euro, minutes before closing.
Romania’s central bank set the leu’s exchange rate at 4.4269 per euro, from 4.4282 per euro a day before.
On the money market, overnight rates stayed in the 0.1%-0.5% interval.