Stock market holiday today: NSE, BSE to remain closed for Muharram; here is what else will be unavailable

Domestic equity markets will resume trading normally on Thursday, July 18 at 9:15 am, following a 15-minute pre-opening session starting at 9:00 am.

 

No. Trading in the money market will also resume on Thursday, July 18, at 9 am. 

After July 17, the next trading holiday is on August 15. 

On its website, bseindia.com, BSE has listed as many as 15 holidays for equity, equity derivatives, and SLB segments in the calendar year 2024.

Besides Mumbai, a number of other cities across the country are scheduled to observe a holiday on July 17, including New Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jammu, Srinagar, Shimla, Nagpur, Lucknow, Kanpur, Patna, Ranchi, Bhopal, Shillong and Agartala.

However, banks will remain open in Ahmedabad, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Gangtok, Guwahati, Imphal, Itanagar, Kochi, Kohima, Panaji, and Thiruvananthapuram. Read more on bank holidays

Commodity exchange MCX will be shut for the morning session on July 17, with trading scheduled to resume at 5 pm.

 

The bourse conducts trading operations in two sessions.

 

The morning session begins at 9 am and ends at 5 pm, and the evening session commences at 5 pm and ends at 11:3011:55 pm.

Domestic equity benchmarks scaled fresh record closing highs on Tuesday, July 16, as Dalal Street headed into a mid-week trading holiday the next day. Buying interest in FMCG and IT shares pushed the main gauges higher, as the Sensex rose 51.7 points to end at 80,716.6 and the Nifty50 added 26.3 points to call it a day at 24,613. Bharti Airtel, ICICI Bank, Infosys, HUL and ITC were the biggest movers for both indices. Read more on Tuesday's session

Investors await more quarterly reports from major corporates for domestic cues.

All eyes are on the much anticipated first Budget of the Narendra Modi 3.0 government due next week. 

The rupee settled at at 83.58 against the US dollar after gyrating within a narrow range on Tuesday, not far from an all-time low of 83.62 registered this week.