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WTI crude oil , which was down 3% in earlier trading, pared losses by 2% to settle at $69.20 a barrel, putting oil back near its lowest levels in nearly two years. Brent crude ( BZ=F ) dipped ...
The week's biggest economic data point will come with markets closed on Friday. Economists expect that "core" PCE inflation rose 0.3% over the prior month in February and 2.8% over the prior year.
Today marks the start of the Santa Claus trading window, a historically bullish 7-day stretch. The stock market will close at 1 p.m. for a shortened trading session due to Christmas Eve.
In business, the trading day or regular trading hours (RTH) is the time span that a stock exchange is open, as opposed to electronic or extended trading hours (ETH). For example, the New York Stock Exchange is, as of 2020, open from 9:30 AM Eastern Time to 4:00 PM Eastern Time. Trading days are usually Monday through Friday.
For the week, the Nasdaq Composite rose more than 1%, while the S&P 500 was near flat. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI ) fell more than 2%. All three indexes were still near record highs.
For a trade with a time to expiry of v days, the expiry date is the day v days ahead of the horizon date (unless it is a weekend or 1 January, in which case the date is rolled forward to a weekday) and for a trade with time to expiry of x weeks, the expiry date is the day 7x days ahead of the horizon date (with the same conditions as above).
Stocks drifted higher leading into the shortened trading week, which includes the Thanksgiving holiday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained nearly 2% for the past week, while the S&P 500 and ...
The reason was the lack of the modern trading platforms which show the changing prices every moment. As the working week used to be 6-days, the period settings of (12, 26, 9) represent 2 weeks, 1 month and one and a half week. Now when the trading weeks have only 5 days, possibilities of changing the period settings cannot be overruled.