The local currency closed Monday at 4.548/4.55 per euro.
It opened at 4.546 to the euro, and further strengthened as transferred volumes increased, with dealers suspecting the central bank sold euros taken from the Finance Ministry’s latest hard currency bond.
The leu touched the day’s high at 4.5305 per euro in the first part of the session, but later eased some of the gains on reduced volumes.
The central bank set the leu’s official exchange rate at 4.537, the strongest in four weeks.
On the money market, overnight rates were unchanged on the day at 4.9%-5.4% a year.