New Delhi: Stock Market will remain open on February 1, 2025 (Saturday) when Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget 2025-26. It may be noted that stock market indices including BSE Sensex, NSE Nifty and all others observe holiday on every Saturday and Sunday.
The Budget 2025 will be Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA Government’s second full Budget after it won the 2024 Lok Sabha Election.
The NSE website issued a circular which read, “on account of the presentation of the Union Budget, Exchange shall be conducting live trading session on February 01, 2025, as per the standard market timings.”
“Members are requested to note that “T0” session shall not be scheduled for trading on 01-Feb-2025 due to settlement holiday,” said NSE. The Equity markets will have a regular trading session until 3:30 pm. The commodity derivatives market will have a session till 5 pm.
| Saturday, February 01, 2025 | Time |
| Normal Market open time | 09:15:00 |
| Normal Market close time | 15:30:00 |
| Trade Modification end time | 16:15:00 |
Capital Market (Equities) Trade timings
| Saturday, February 01, 2025 | Start Time | End Time |
| Block deal session – 1 | 08:45:00 | 09:00:00 |
| Special Preopen Session ** (For IPO & Relisted security) | 09:00:00 | 09:45:00 |
| Call Auction Illiquid session (6 sessions of 1 hour each) | 09:30:00 | 15:30:00 |
| Block deal session – 2 | 14:05:00 | 14:20:00 |
| Post Closing Session | 15:40:00 | 16:00:00 |
| Trade Modification cut-off time | 16:15:00 | 16:15:00 |
Commodity Derivatives
| Saturday, February 01, 2025 | Time |
| Normal Market open time | 09:15:00 |
| Normal Market close time | 17:00:00 |
| Position Limit/Collateral value Set up cut off time | 17:15:00 |
| Trade Modification end time | 17:15:00 |
This is not the first time the stock markets will remain open on a Saturday for Budget speech. On February 1, 2020, and February 28, 2015, the exchanges remained opened as Union Budget was presented.
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