Tuesday March 10 2015

News Source: Global Exchanges

Focus: Holidays and Opening Hours and suspensions

Type: General

Country: International

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The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) has confirmed its previous holiday recommendations for the trading of U.S. dollar-denominated fixed-income securities in the U.S., UK, and Japan in observance of the Good Friday and U.K. Easter Monday holidays.

SIFMA recommends an early market close at 12:00 p.m., ET, on Friday, April 3, for the trading of U.S. dollar-denominated fixed-income securities in the United States in observance of the Good Friday holiday.

Additionally, SIFMA has confirmed its previous recommendations for a full market close on Friday, April 3 and Monday, April 6 in the UK in observance of the Good Friday and UK Easter Monday holidays.

For Japan, SIFMA has confirmed its previous recommendations for a full market close on Friday, April 3 and an early market close at 3:00pm JST on Monday, April 6 in observance of the Good Friday and UK Easter Monday holidays, respectively.

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