Thursday January 1 2026
News Source: Global Exchanges
Focus: Holidays and Opening Hours and suspensions
Type: General
Country: Russia
Moscow Exchange (MOEX) has decided to hold trading on the stock and derivatives markets on the official holidays of February 23, May 1, June 12, and November 4, 2026.
Trading on these days will be conducted in the format of an additional weekend session from 09:50 to 19:00 Moscow time and will be part of the trading day following the weekend.
Thus, during the 2026 holidays, trading on the Moscow Exchange markets will be conducted according to the following schedule:
On the official holidays of January 5–6, January 8–9, March 9, and May 11, 2026, trading will be held on the stock market, deposit and loan markets, foreign exchange and precious metals markets, derivatives markets, and the standardized derivatives market (SD).
On these dates, trading will be conducted on all instruments in the foreign exchange and precious metals markets, except for transactions with a settlement date on the day of the transaction (transactions with “TODAY” settlements) and swap transactions, the settlement date for the first legs of which falls on the day of the transaction.
OTC transactions with a central counterparty (CCP) on the SD market on these dates will be conducted with settlements for all instruments, except for SD agreements stipulating obligations denominated in Russian rubles, except for deposit margin.
Trading in other markets on these days will be conducted according to the standard schedule.
On official public holidays on February 23, May 1, June 12, November 4 , as well as on all weekends except January 3–4 and 10–11, February 14–15, March 7–8 and 21–22, May 9–10, June 20–21, August 1–2 and 15–16, September 12–13, October 24–25, and December 5–6, trading on the Moscow Exchange stock and derivatives markets is conducted in the format of an additional weekend session.
On holidays on January 1–2, January 7, March 8, May 9 and December 31, 2026, trading on Moscow Exchange markets will not be conducted.
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