Here are the stock market’s trading hours for Thanksgiving and Black Friday
U.S. financial markets are closed Thursday for Thanksgiving, and will close early on Black Friday.
Black Friday, Nov. 26, is the official start to the holiday shopping season, with many retailers — including Macy’s Inc. M,
The Intercontinental Exchange Inc. ICE,
The major U.S. exchange operators — the NYSE, American Stock Exchange and Nasdaq — initially called for a 2 p.m. Eastern close for the Friday after Thanksgiving in 1992, two hours earlier than the normal 4 p.m. closing bell. But the following year, exchanges opted to shutter markets three hours earlier, at 1 p.m.
Overall, trading activity on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and the Friday afterward are usually a fraction of normal, non-holiday trading periods. The dearth of volume around the holiday makes sense, given that Thanksgiving is typically the busiest travel day of the year, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
On Black Friday, metals such as gold GC00,
So, how does the market tend to perform during this holiday period? The folks at Bespoke Investment Group say that stock markets, such as the S&P 500 index SPX,