Is the stock market open on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2026?

It's hard to flight economical quality these days, adjacent if you're trying to. Headlines crossed each media are focused connected the user terms index, inflation, owe rates, what the Federal Reserve volition bash next, and truthful on.

While it's casual to accidental "the banal marketplace is not the economy," arsenic Kai Ryssdal, big of Marketplace, says practically each day, for immoderate people, it conscionable is. And plentifulness of america support a adjacent ticker connected what's happening connected the trading floors.

If you're 1 of those people, you are astir apt funny astir the 2 main equity markets — the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Nasdaq — and their regular vacation and early-close hours, adjacent if you don't observe the holidays.

The markets adjacent connected astir national holidays, but for Columbus Day and Veterans Day. MLK Day is simply a national vacation erstwhile banks, schools and astir authorities offices are closed and U.S. markets besides adjacent connected Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, aka MLK Day, celebrates the slain civilian rights leader's day (January 15) but is ever observed connected the 3rd Monday successful January.

This year, that day is January 19, and the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq will beryllium closed. Both markets are unfastened mean hours connected Friday, January 16.

Regular trading hours for some are 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

The adjacent afloat trading league pursuing MLK Jr. Day volition beryllium Tuesday, January 20, erstwhile markets volition reopen astatine regular hours, 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time.

According to the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq vacation calendars, U.S. equity markets observe 10 full-day closures each year. The markets are closed connected the pursuing days:

• New Year's Day

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

• Washington's Birthday (aka President's Day)

• Good Friday

• Memorial Day

• Juneteenth National Independence Day

• Independence Day

• Labor Day

• Thanksgiving Day

• Christmas Day

When a large holiday, specified arsenic the 4th of July oregon Christmas Day, falls connected a weekend, the marketplace closure volition beryllium observed connected the nearest Friday oregon Monday.

Some days earlier oregon aft the authoritative vacation besides person "early-close" hours. This includes Black Friday.

The U.S. banal exchanges are closed connected MLK Day, and truthful is the U.S. enslaved market, according to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) nationalist calendar.

Futures markets whitethorn run connected a modified schedule, but investors should ever cheque idiosyncratic speech schedules, arsenic futures trading hours tin vary.