FYI, US markets will be closed on Monday, Feb 15...
Is the stock market open on Presidents Day? Here are trading hours
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Published: Feb. 11, 2021 at 10:00 p.m. ET
By Mark DeCambre
Some Asian markets are also closed for Lunar New Year
U.S. financial markets will pause Monday in observance of Presidents Day — which, technically, is not the name of the holiday.
The New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq will be closed on Feb. 15. And the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, or Sifma, is recommending no trading in dollar-denominated securities, meaning the closely watched 10-year Treasury note TMUBMUSD10Y, 1.163% — as well as interest rates for money markets and certificates of deposit — will join the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.02%, the S&P 500 index SPX, +0.17% and the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +0.38% in a static state.
And trading in futures and options on CME Group CME, -1.34% exchanges will also be halted on Monday. In other words, there will be no settlements in trading in gold futures GCJ21, -0.47% or crude oil CL.1, -1.00%. However, traders will be able to deal in commodities on the Globex platform, with a pause starting after 1 p.m. Eastern.
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Meanwhile, Canadian markets are closed in observance of Family Day, which coincides with Presidents Day in the U.S. in falling on the third Monday in February. Trading on European markets, and movements in such benchmarks as the Stoxx Europe 600 SXXP, 0.00% and the U.K.’s FTSE 100 UKX, 0.07%, are slated to be under way as usual on Monday.
However, Asian markets will be mostly closed for the Lunar New Year, turning the page from the COVID-stricken Year of the Rat to the Year of the Ox, which began officially on Feb. 12. The Shanghai Composite Index SHCOMP, +1.43%, the CSI 300 000300, +2.14%, the Shenzhen Composite Index 399106, +1.75% and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index HSI, +0.45% will be closed on Monday.
China bourses pause from Feb. 11 to 17, while Hong Kong’s markets will be closed from Friday to Monday.
Markets in Asia and the U.S. have been gaining altitude on hope for better economic times as the world attempts to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic that was first identified in December 2019 and has since resulted in 108 million cases worldwide — 27 million in the U.S., along with 475,000 U.S. deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University of Medicine. |
