The leu opened at 4.5305 per euro, near Tuesday closing levels of 4.53/4.533 per euro.
The local currency lost ground later on, reaching an early low at 4.5375 to the euro in the first hour of the session. At around 10:30 local time (GMT0830), the leu traded at 4.5365/4.5385 to the euro.
Tuesday, the Romanian central bank set the leu’s exchange rate at 4.5379 per euro, almost unchanged from 5.5374 per euro in the previous day.
On the money market Wednesday morning, overnight rates stayed around 0.5%-1% a year.