Washington’s twelfth and latest federal vacation – Juneteenth, or June 19 – will certainly shut the inventory and bond markets this yr, offering traders with a protracted vacation.
That is even supposing in 2022, Juneteenth falls on a Sunday.
Juneteenth, also called Juneteenth Nationwide Independence Day, happens on the anniversary of Union Military Gen. Gordon Granger’s June 19, 1865, proclamation that Texas was free of slavery – years after the Emancipation Proclamation had outlawed it there and in different Southern states.
Juneteenth has been celebrated unofficially for greater than two centuries. However on June 17, 2021, Congress handed laws making it a federal vacation, and President Joe Biden signed it into regulation.
Nonetheless, the inventory and bond markets didn’t shut in 2021, given how near Juneteenth the regulation was enacted. That makes 2022 the primary time the foremost U.S. exchanges will shut in observance of Juneteenth, which they are going to do Monday, June 20.
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Right here, we offer a schedule of inventory market holidays and bond market holidays for 2022. Please be aware that common buying and selling hours for the New York Inventory Change (NYSE) and Nasdaq Inventory Market are 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Japanese on weekdays. The inventory markets shut at 1 p.m. on early-closure days; bond markets shut early at 2 p.m.
2022 Market Holidays
| Date | Vacation | NYSE | Nasdaq | Bond Markets* |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, Jan. 17 | Martin Luther King Jr. Day | Closed | Closed | Closed |
| Monday, Feb. 21 | Presidents’ Day/Washington’s Birthday | Closed | Closed | Closed |
| Thursday, April 14 | Maundy Thursday | Open | Open | Early shut (2 p.m.) |
| Friday, April 15 | Good Friday | Closed | Closed | Closed |
| Friday, Might 27 | Friday Earlier than Memorial Day | Open | Open | Early shut (2 p.m.) |
| Monday, Might 30 | Memorial Day | Closed | Closed | Closed |
| Monday, June 20 | Juneteenth Nationwide Independence Day (Noticed) | Closed | Closed | Closed |
| Friday, July 1 | Friday Earlier than Independence Day | Open | Open | Early shut (2 p.m.) |
| Monday, July 4 | Independence Day | Closed | Closed | Closed |
| Monday, Sept. 5 | Labor Day | Closed | Closed | Closed |
| Monday, Oct. 10 | Columbus Day | Open | Open | Closed |
| Friday, Nov. 11 | Veterans Day | Open | Open | Closed |
| Thursday, Nov. 24 | Thanksgiving Day | Closed | Closed | Closed |
| Friday, Nov. 25 | Day After Thanksgiving | Early shut (1 p.m.) |
Early shut (1 p.m.) |
Early shut (2 p.m.) |
| Friday, Dec. 23 | Christmas Eve (Noticed) | Open | Open | Early shut (2 p.m.) |
| Monday, Dec. 26 | Christmas Day (Noticed) | Closed | Closed | Closed |
| Friday, Dec. 30 | New Yr’s Eve (Noticed) | Open | Open | Early shut (2 p.m.) |
* That is the really useful bond market vacation schedule from the Securities Business and Monetary Markets Affiliation (SIFMA). This schedule is topic to vary.
Market Vacation Observances
With regards to the inventory and bond markets alike, if a vacation falls on a weekend, market closures are dictated by two guidelines:
- If the vacation falls on a Saturday, the market will shut on the previous Friday.
- If the vacation falls on a Sunday, the market will shut on the following Monday.
Inventory and Bond Market Hours
The “core buying and selling” inventory market hours for the NYSE and Nasdaq are 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays. Nonetheless, each exchanges provide premarket buying and selling hours between 4 and 9:30 a.m., in addition to late buying and selling hours between 4 and eight p.m.
Bond markets usually commerce between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
The inventory markets shut at 1 p.m. on early-closure days; bond markets shut early at 2 p.m.
