The leu opened at 4.5355/4.5373 to the euro, slightly weaker than 4.5325/4.5350 to the euro at Monday closing.
It later gained little ground, trading at 4.5315/4.5345 per euro by 10:15 am (GMT0715), but dealers said the evolution was not influenced by the announcement of the second-quarter gross domestic product data.
In the second quarter, Romania’s GDP rose 0.5%, after declines in the previous two quarters. Compared with the same period of 2011, the second-quarter GDP was up 1.7% in seasonally adjusted data.
On Monday, the central bank set the leu’s official exchange rate at 4.5307 per euro, the strongest in a month.
On the money market Tuesday morning, overnight rates stood at around 5.5% a year.