Texas is becoming a new focal point of the financial world, with the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange relocating some offices to Dallas and the upstart Texas Stock Exchange gearing to shake up the investing world.
While the state is gaining attention from Wall Street’s investment firms and market movers, the clock still starts and stops in New York. The TXSE has not yet announced what operating hours it is planning, but they would presumably follow the same schedule as its East Coast rivals.
On Sundays, pre-market trading begins at 6 p.m. Eastern (5 p.m. Central). This period is when stock futures react to major events like the global fight over U.S. tariffs, and set the stage for the regular trading session.
Here’s when the major stock markets in the United States and worldwide open each weekday.
New York Stock Exchange
The New York Stock Exchange, the world’s largest market exchange with more than $25 trillion in market capitalization among its listed stocks, starts trading at 9:30 a.m. EST daily. With the time zone shift, the market opens at 8:30 a.m. for those in Dallas-Fort Worth.
The NYSE closes daily at 4 p.m. EST (3 p.m. CST).
Some activity starts in the wee hours of the morning before New York opens, when traders are allowed to start putting trades in the queue. And then there is an early trading session from 6 a.m. CST until the market opens in full at 8:30 a.m.
The NYSE is open every business day, except for 10 major holidays which include:
- New Year’s Day (Jan. 1)
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Jan. 20)
- Washington’s Birthday (Feb. 17)
- Good Friday (floating)
- Memorial Day (last Monday of May)
- Juneteenth (June 19)
- Independence Day (July 4)
- Labor Day (first Monday of September)
- Thanksgiving (fourth Thursday of November)
- Christmas (Dec. 25)
Nasdaq
The New York-based Nasdaq is a relatively new exchange compared to the NYSE, but still traces its founding to 1971.
Originally known as the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations, the NASDAQ was formerly known for a focus on technology stocks but has since diversified to a wide range of listings.
The Nasdaq, the country’s second-largest stock exchange, follows identical core trading hours to the NYSE, although it has a slightly different schedule for some of its markets and products.
The Nasdaq also follows the same holiday schedule as the NYSE, although it closes at 1 p.m. EST (or 12 p.m. CST) on Christmas Eve, the day before Independence Day and the day after Thanksgiving.
International exchanges
Here are the core trading hours for some of the world’s major exchanges
Tokyo Stock Exchange: Japan’s Tokyo Stock Exchange is open from 9 to 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. That means the market opens at 7 p.m. CST and closes at 1:30 a.m.
Shanghai Stock Exchange: China’s major stock exchange runs from 9:15 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. local time, putting the operating hours for Dallas at 8:15 p.m. to 2:30 a.m.
Euronext: The Amsterdam-based Euronext is the largest stock exchange operating in continental Europe. Its local hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., meaning its hours for Dallas-area investors are 1 to 9:30 a.m.
London Stock Exchange: The United Kingdom’s biggest stock exchange is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Greenwich mean time. In Dallas, that’s 3 to 11:30 a.m.
