(News Bulletin 247) – The American markets will experience exceptional closure eleven times during the year 2025.

Given the sometimes significant influence of the American markets on the evolution of the prices of their European counterparts, investors must monitor the Wall Street calendar, even if they are focused on French or European stocks. If only for liquidity reasons.

Once again, the New York Stock Exchange will experience more days of closure in 2025 than Paris. It must be said that public holidays across the Atlantic are often set on a Monday, or observed on a Monday if they fall during a weekend. Here are the weekdays on which the American markets will be exceptionally closed this year:

  • Monday January 1st (for the new year)
  • Thursday, January 9 (national day of mourning in honor of former President Jimmy Carter)
  • Monday January 20 (commemoration of the birth of Martin Luther King)
  • Monday February 17 (commemoration of all former presidents of the United States)
  • Friday April 18 (Good Friday)
  • Monday May 26 (Memorial Day)
  • Thursday June 19 (Juneteenth – day commemorating the end of slavery)
  • Friday July 4 (national holiday)
  • Monday, September 1 (Labor Day)
  • Thursday, November 27 (Thanksgiving)
  • Thursday December 25 (Christmas celebrations)
  • Note that the New York Stock Exchange will be exceptionally closed on Thursday January 9, a day of national mourning in tribute to former President Jimmy Carter, who died at the end of December.

    The doors of the American market remain open on October 14, but as this date corresponds to a public holiday for the rest of the economy (Columbus Day), activity on the stock market should be very reduced.

    In addition, trading in shares of the New York Stock Exchange will only take place over half a session (closing at 1 p.m. local time) on Thursday, July 3, the eve of the National Day, and Friday, November 28 (the day after Thanksgiving). , as well as Christmas Eve, December 24.