Stock market holiday: Is Indian stock market shut for Ram Navami on April 17?
- According to the list of stock market holidays in 2024 available on the BSE website, the Indian stock market will remain closed on Wednesday for Ram Navmi 2024.
Stock market holiday: The Indian stock market will remain closed on Wednesday, April 17, on account of Ram Navami. Both the leading stock exchanges, the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the National Stock Exchange (NSE) will remain shut on April 17 for Ram Navami, the birth anniversary of Lord Ram.
Investors can check on the official websites of the BSE and the NSE for the list of stock market holidays in 2024.
No more holidays in April?
According to the list of stock market holidays in 2024 available on the BSE website, the Indian stock market will remain closed on Wednesday i.e. on Ram Navmi 2024. This means trading activities at the BSE and NSE will remain shut in the Indian share market tomorrow. The stock market holidays list 2024 shows that this is the last trading holiday in April 2024 --and the next stock market holiday will be on May 1, on account of Maharashtra Day.
As per the BSE, the equity, equity derivatives, SLB and the currency derivatives and Interest Rate derivatives segments will remain closed for on Wednesday, April 17.
The Commodity Derivative Segment on the Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited (MCX) will remain shut for the morning session only on April 17 while the evening session will be open on Wednesday.
Commodity trading on MCX will resume trading in the evening session from 5 pm to 11:30/11:55 pm tomorrow.
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Stock market holidays in May 2024
There will be two stock market holidays In May 2024. The first stock market holiday falls on May 1 for the Maharashtra Day celebration. One more stock market holiday has been announced on May 20 for the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections 2024.
Indian stock market news
The Indian stock market indices, Sensex and Nifty 50, extended losses to trade sharply lower on Tuesday, dragged by weak global cues.
At 1:25 pm, the Sensex was trading 690.99 points, or 0.94%, lower at 72,708.79, while the Nifty 50 dropped 183.95 points, or 0.83%, to 22,088.55.
Heavy selling was witnessed in most sectors on dampened risk appetite of investors. The Iran-Israel conflict that fuels tensions in the oil-rich Middle-East region, rising US dollar and the US Treasury yields, and unabated selling by Foreign Institutional Investors (FII) also led to the crash in markets.
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