Is the Stock Market Open July 4? What To Know About the Shortened Trading Week

Published July 02, 2024

02:34 PM EDT

Fourth of July fireworks near the Empire State Building in New York City — Fatih Aktas / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images

Key Takeaways

U.S. financial markets will be closed on Thursday for the Independence Day holiday.
Stock markets will be open 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET on Wednesday and for standard hours on Friday.
The June U.S. jobs report will be released Friday morning.

U.S. financial markets will be closed on Thursday in observance of Independence Day.

Stock and bond trading will end early Wednesday afternoon ahead of the July 4 holiday.

Markets will operate on normal hours this Friday. The June jobs report will be released at 8:30 a.m. ET on Friday. Analysts' median forecast expects that 200,000 non-farm payroll jobs were added last month, with unemployment remaining from May levels at 4%.

After this week, there's only one more summer trading holiday: Labor Day, on Monday, Sept. 2.

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