Today is a holiday in the domestic stock market on the occasion of Vijayadashami. Due to being a holiday, there will be no trading in the stock market in National Stock Exchange (NSE) and Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) today.
Due to today’s holiday in the stock market, there will be trading only for four days this week. After today’s holiday, normal trading will start in the stock market from Wednesday.
Like BSE and NSE, Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) also has a holiday today on the occasion of Vijaya Dashami. However, in MCX this holiday will remain only in the morning session.
It will be opened at 5 pm for the evening trading session. Similarly, National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) will also remain closed for the whole day today.
According to the information provided by the stock exchange, due to Vijayadashami holiday, there will be trading holiday for all Equity Segment, Equity Derivatives Segment, Currency Derivatives Segments, New Debt Segment- Reporting, Settlement and Trading Platform (NDS-RST), Tri Party Repo in BSE.
However, the session in Commodity Derivatives segment and Electronic Gold Receipts segment will remain open from 5 pm to 11:30 pm and 11:55 pm.
Similarly, due to Vijayadashami holiday in NSE, there will be a holiday in all the segments like Equities, Equity Derivatives, Corporate Bonds, New Debt Segments, Negotiated Trade Reporting Platform, Mutual Funds, Security Lending and Borrowing Schemes, Currency Derivatives, Commodity Derivatives and Interest Rate Derivatives.
According to the holiday calendar of the stock market, today is the second holiday in the month of October falling on Vijayadashami. Earlier this month, October 2 was the holiday of Gandhi Jayanti, whereas today is the holiday of Vijayadashami.
After this, there will be a holiday in the stock market on 10th November due to Bali Pratipada. There will be a holiday of Shri Guru Nanak Dev Guru Parab on 24th in the month of November. Similarly, in the last month of the year, December, there will be Christmas holiday on 25th.
This year Diwali will be celebrated on Sunday, November 8. Since it is Saturday and Sunday, this day has not been included in the holiday calendar of the stock market.
Despite Diwali being Sunday, there will be Muhurat trading in the stock market. Like last year, this time also the time for Muhurta trading has been fixed at noon. According to NSE time table, Muhurat trading will start at 2:20 pm on Diwali.