What to Know About the Shortened Trading Week

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What to Know About the Shortened Trading Week

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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