Wall Road to shut on Jan 9 to honor President Jimmy Carter


By Stephen Culp

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. inventory exchanges will shut on Thursday, January 9 in commentary of a nationwide day of mourning in honor of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday on the age of 100.

The New York Inventory Alternate and the Nasdaq introduced the closures on Monday, a customary gesture to honor deceased presidents.

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A street sign for Wall Street is seen outside of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, New York, U.S., June 28, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo

President Joe Biden directed January 9 to be a day of nationwide mourning for Jimmy Carter, the thirty ninth U.S. President and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace prize for his humanitarian work.

The Securities Business and Monetary Markets Affiliation has really useful an early shut on Jan 9 for the U.S. bond market at 2:00 p.m. ET/1900 GMT.

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