Inventory market vacation: With Holi celebrations underway on Friday, March 14, 2025, the query arises whether or not the Indian inventory market will stay open for buying and selling or not immediately.
Inventory market vacation: Individuals stroll previous the Bombay Inventory Change (BSE) constructing in Mumbai (Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)
The Bombay Inventory Change (BSE) in addition to the Nationwide Inventory Change (NSE) have each declared a vacation for Holi 2025, so they’ll stay closed immediately.
This consists of the Fairness Section, Fairness Spinoff Section and SLB Section, Foreign money Derivatives Segments, NDS-RST and Tri Occasion Repo, in line with the BSE’s inventory market vacation calendar for 2025.
In the meantime, the Commodity Derivatives Section and Digital Gold Receipts (EGR) phase will stay open within the night session (5:00 pm to 11:30/11:55 pm), whereas they are going to be closed for the morning session (9:00 am to five:00 pm).
Equally, the Multi Commodity Change of India (MCX) will probably be closed for buying and selling within the morning session, however open within the night session at 5 PM, in line with the checklist of buying and selling holidays 2025.
Different inventory market holidays in March 2025
The subsequent inventory market vacation in March 2025 will probably be on March 31 for Id-Ul-Fitr (Ramzan Id). This together with Holi are the one two particular holidays for this month, other than the weekends throughout which the exchanges are nearly all the time closed.
How did the inventory market carry out on Thursday?
The inventory market closed within the pink after the earlier buying and selling session ended on Thursday, March 13, 2025.
The benchmark BSE Sensex closed 200.85 factors or 0.27 p.c within the pink, reaching 73,828.91. The broader NSE Nifty was down by 73.30 factors or by 0.33 p.c within the pink, reaching 22,397.20.
Among the many Sensex shares, Zomato fell essentially the most by 1.97 p.c, closing at ₹201.40. This was adopted by Tata Motors, which was down 1.95 p.c, closing at ₹655.40, and IndusInd Financial institution, which was down 1.84 p.c, closing at ₹672.10.
Solely 8 out of the 30 Sensex shares had been within the inexperienced.
Among the many Nifty sectoral indices, the Nifty Realty Index fell essentially the most by 1.83 p.c, reaching 800.15. This was adopted by Nifty Media, which was down 1.50 p.c, reaching 1,437.80, and the Nifty Midsmall Monetary Companies Index, which was down 1.22 p.c, reaching 13,396.45.
The Realty Index had fallen the third most on Wednesday’s shut by 1.65 p.c, reaching 815.05.
Overseas Institutional Traders (FIIs) remained internet sellers, offloading ₹792.90 crore value of equities, whereas Home Institutional Traders (DIIs) had been internet patrons, shopping for a distinction of ₹1,723.82 crore.