Against the US dollar, however, the leu’s indicative lost 0.26% on the day to 3.5474 units.

The leu opened modestly higher at 4.53 per euro, from 4.536/4.5375 per euro at Tuesday close, and hovered around that level for the first part of the session.

In the money market, overnight rates were flat at 5.3%-5.8% a year.