The leu closed at 4.471/4.474 per euro, from 4.485/4.489 per euro Thursday.
The currency opened at 4.483/4.485 to the euro and traded around 4.48 per euro in the first half of the day. In the afternoon, the leu touched a high of 4.47 against the euro amid growing foreign currency sales traders suspect may have come from the central bank.
The central bank set the leu’s reference at 4.4819 to the euro, the strongest rate in the past seven weeks. Against the US dollar, the leu’s indicative retreated marginally to 3.5739 units, from 3.5729 units a day earlier.
In the money market, overnight rates fell to 5.4%-5.9% a year after hitting a high of 9.25% a year Thursday, amid liquidity shortage.