Stock market holidays in March 2024: The Indian stock market will have a truncated week ahead as trading activities in the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the National Stock Exchange (NSE) will remain closed for two sessions next week. According to the list of stock market holidays 2024, which is available on the BSE website, the Indian stock market will remain closed on Monday, March 25, 2024 for the Holi festival. After Holi 2024, the next stock market holiday will fall on March 29, 2024 ie Friday next week for Good Friday. So, out of the regular five-week sessions, there will be no trading activities on Monday and Friday next week. The truncated week will have only three sessions from Tuesday to Thursday.
According to the list of stock market holidays 2024, available on the official website of BSE — bseindia.com — there will be no trading activity in Equity Segment, Equity Derivative Segment, and SLB Segment today. Trading in Currency Derivatives Segments will also remain suspended on the Indian stock exchange on Holi 2024 and Good Friday 2024.
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Will the commodity market open?
On Monday next week, there will be no trading activity at the MCX (Multi Commodity Exchange) and NCDEX (National Commodity Exchange) during the morning shift from 9:00 AM to 5:00 AM but it will remain open in the evening shift. This means that the commodity market in India will resume on Monday at 5:00 PM. However, on Good Friday, trading will remain suspended on MCX for the entire session. This means that there will be no trading activity in the Indian commodity market on Friday next week.
Stock market holidays 2024
According to the list of stock market holidays 2024, Good Friday will be the last stock market holiday in March 2024. In April 2024, there will be two stock market holidays falling on 11 April 2024 and 17 April 2024. On 11 April 2024, the Indian stock market declared a holiday for Eid -Ul-Fitr (Ramzan Eid) during April 17, 2024, NSE and BSE will remain closed for the Ram Navami celebration.
On Friday last week, domestic equities joined the global rally after the US and UK central banks kept rates unchanged. The Nifty 50 index after a subdued start rallied to close with gains of 85 points (+0.4%) at 22097 levels. The broader market also ended in the green. Apart from IT, all sectors ended in green with Auto, Pharma and Realty as top gainers. The IT sector saw some selling after US technology major Accenture lowered its revenue forecast for FY24. Accenture revised its full-year revenue growth forecast to 1 percent to 3 percent from 2 percent to 5 percent.
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Published: 23 Mar 2024, 08:07 IST