Stocks, CME (futures) and SIFMA (cash interest rates) Thanksgiving holiday trading times

<p>The New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq Stock Market and US bond markets will be closed for Thanksgiving on Thursday 23 November 2023.
</p><ul><li>NYSE and Nasdaq will close early, at 1 p.m. ET, on the Friday after Thanksgiving</li><li>Bond markets will also close early, at 2 p.m.</li></ul><p>Please note for us in Asia that SIFMA have recommended no Japanese trading of US interest products today, Thursday.</p><ul><li><em>All SIFMA holiday recommendations apply to the trading of U.S. dollar-denominated government securities, mortgage- and asset-backed securities, over-the-counter investment-grade and high-yield corporate bonds, municipal bonds and secondary money market trading in bankers' acceptances, commercial paper and Yankee and Euro certificates of deposit.</em></li></ul><p>For FX, markets remain open but with the absence of US investment flows it'll tend to be on the quiet and illiquid end of the spectrum.&nbsp;</p><p>For the CME (futures trade), it depends on the market,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cmegroup.com/trading-hours/files/thanksgiving-day-2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">full details here (pdf)</a> but in summary:</p><figure data-media-><img src="https://images.forexlive.com/images/cme%20thanksgiving%20holidays%202023_id_987ff12e-bac3-402d-8e3a-20b98c8cced6_size900.jpg" alt="cme thanksgiving holidays 2023 fx" width="1116" height="1117" wrapper-="wrapper-" data-src="https://images.forexlive.com/images/cme%20thanksgiving%20holidays%202023_id_987ff12e-bac3-402d-8e3a-20b98c8cced6_size900.jpg" /></figure><p>—</p><p>The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) is the body that recommends a holiday schedule for financial markets in the U.S., U.K., and Japan on behalf of market participants​​.</p>

This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.