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Today is a holiday in the Indian stock market due to Good Friday 2024. BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) and NSE (National Stock Exchange) will remain closed today on 29th March 2024 and all global stock markets will also remain closed for the same reason. This is followed by a fall on Saturday and Sunday when the foreign stock markets as well as the Indian stock markets are closed for the entire week, so it will be a long weekend and the Indian and global markets will remain closed for three consecutive days.
Why is there a holiday on Good Friday?
Christians celebrate this festival to commemorate the death of Jesus Christ by crucifixion at Calvary. The festival is celebrated during Holy Week, which falls on the Friday before Easter Sunday. Good Friday is also called Holy Friday, Black Friday or Great Friday.
Today is a holiday in all departments
According to the list of Indian stock market holidays on BSE website bseindia.com, there will be no trading in the equity segment, equity derivatives segment and SLB segment today. Today is also a Good Friday holiday in the currency derivatives segment and now the work will be done on Monday, April 1.
3 holidays falling at the end of fiscal year 2024
After the stock market holidays on 29, 30, 31 March, the stock market will now open directly on 1 April 2024 i.e. Monday and this will also be the starting day of the financial year 2024-2025. According to the list of holidays of the local stock market, this time in March there were many occasions when there was a three-day holiday in the stock market. Firstly, stock markets were closed on Friday, March 8 for Mahashivratri followed by a weekly holiday on Saturday-Sunday. Then there was a holiday for Holi on Monday 25th March and before that there was also a weekly holiday on Saturday-Sunday 23-24th March. After this, there is Good Friday holiday on 29th March and after that there is Saturday-Sunday holiday respectively and the current financial year is ending with the holiday.
Are commodity markets open today?
Trading in both the commodity derivatives segment and electronic gold receipts (EGR) segment will also remain suspended today. According to this, there will be no trading on Multi Commodity Exchange and National Commodity Exchange today.
When are the stock market holidays in April?
Now there are many holidays in the coming month of April in which the stock market will be closed on 11th April due to Eid-ul-Fitr and this day is Thursday. After this, the stock market will remain closed on Wednesday, April 17 on the occasion of Ram Navami. So, there will be 2 days stock market holiday in April and the rest will be weekly holidays.