When Do The Markets Close On New Years Eve? Major markets around the world will be closed on New Year’s Day but, unlike the Christmas holiday trading in U.S. equities will be on a full schedule the day before and after New Year’s Day. Bond traders and many foreign exchanges, however, will close early New Year’s Eve. The New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq will operate during regular trading hours on Wednesday, December 31, closing at 4 p.m. EST. and will pick up trading again at the end of the week on Friday, Jan. 2, 2015. However, those trading…
When Do The Markets Close On New Years Eve
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.