Against the US dollar, the leu’s indicative lost 0.2% to 3.5637 units.

The leu opened close to 4.54 to the euro, versus 4.5365/4.5395 per euro at Thursday close, and hovered around that level in the first half of the day, in a quiet market.

In the money market, overnight rates were at 5.4%-5.9% a year, from 5.2%-5.7% a year Thursday.