Monday December 15 2025
News Source: Global Exchanges
Focus: Holidays and Opening Hours and suspensions
Type: General
Country: US
On 12th December 2025, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) confirmed its previous holiday recommendations for the U.S., the U.K., and Japan in observance of the Christmas Day and U.K. Boxing Day holidays.
United States
SIFMA recommends an early close at 2:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, December 24, 2025, and a full market close on Thursday, December 25, 2025.
United Kingdom
SIFMA recommends full market closes on Thursday, December 25, and Friday, December 26, 2025.
Japan
SIFMA recommends a full market close on Thursday, December 25, 2025, and an early close at 3:00 p.m. JST on Friday, December 26, 2025.
The early close will not affect the closing time for settlements.
These recommendations apply to trading of U.S. dollar-denominated government securities, mortgage- and asset-backed securities, over-the-counter investment-grade and high-yield corporate bonds, municipal bonds and secondary money market trading in bankers’ acceptances, commercial paper and Yankee and Euro certificates of deposit.
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