United States stock markets will be closed on Friday, June 19, in observance of Juneteenth.
The Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange will be closed Friday and reopen Monday, June 22. The U.S. bond market will also be closed on June 19, according to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.
Juneteenth, known as America’s Second Independence Day, has been commemorated as a federally-recognized holiday since 2021, providing millions of Americans with a paid day off and the opportunity to commemorate the end of slavery.
The holiday commemorates the day when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, in 1865 with 2,000 Union troops to proclaim that more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in the state were free – two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863.
After shuttering for Juneteenth, it will be business as usual on Wall Street until early July. The next scheduled stock market closure is on Friday, July 3, in observance of Independence Day.
United States Stock Market 2026 Holiday Schedule
Markets will be closed for the following holidays:
- Juneteenth: Friday, June 19
- Independence Day: Friday, July 3
- Labor Day: Monday, Sept. 7
- Thanksgiving: Thursday, Nov. 26
- Christmas: Friday, Dec. 25
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