Stock market holiday: Due to the Mahashivratri 2024 holiday, trading at BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) and NSE (National Stock Exchange) will remain closed on 8th March 2024 i.e. today. This means that there will be no trading activity on the Indian stock market today. According to the list of stock market holidays in March 2024, trading on BSE and NSE will remain closed for the entire Friday session, ie on 8 March 2024.
According to the list of stock market holidays 2024, which is available on the official website of BSE – bseindia.com – there will be no action in Equity Segment, Equity Derivative Segment, and SLB Segment today. Trading in Currency Derivatives Segments will also remain suspended on the Indian stock exchange today for the Mahashivratri 2024 festival.
Does the Commodity Market open today?
In the Commodity Derivatives and Electronic Gold Receipts (EGR) Segment, trading will remain suspended in the morning session, that is from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM but it will resume in the evening session at 5:00 PM. This means that there will be no action on MCX (Multi Commodity Exchange) and NCDEX (National Commodity Exchange) from morning 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Trading activity in the Indian commodity market will take place from evening 17:00 to evening 11:55.
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Stock market holidays in March 2024
According to the list of stock market holidays falling in March 2024, there will be three stock market holidays in this month. These three stock market holidays fall on 8 March 2024, 25 March 2024 and 29 March 2024. On 25 March 2024, the stock market will remain closed for the Holi celebration while on 29 March 2024, trading at BSE and NSE will remain suspended for the celebrations of Good Friday.
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In April 2024, there will be two stock market holidays falling on 11 and 17 April. On 11 April, the Indian stock market will remain closed for Id-Ul-Fitr (Ramzan Id) celebrations while on 17 April, trading activities at the Indian stock market will remain suspended for the Ram Navami celebrations. So, after the Mashivratri festival, the next stock market holiday will fall on March 25, 2024 for the Holi festival.
Stock market timing
On normal days, the Indian stock market opens at 9:15 and trading activities at NSE and BSE continue till 3:30. Pre-opening session starts in the morning 9:00 AM and ends after 15 minutes at 9:15 AM.
In the commodity segment, trading at MCX and NCDEX starts at 9:00 AM. Trading in the commodity segment takes place in two sessions – morning and evening sessions. Morning commodity market sessions start at 9:00 am and end at 5:00 pm in the evening while evening sessions start at 5:00 pm and end at 11:30 pm or 11:55 pm, depending on the guideline issued by the market bodies . Currently, the evening session of the commodity market ends at 23:55 but from March 11, 2024, it will end at 23:30.
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Published: 08 Mar 2024, 07:19 IST