Wall Street Closes for Good Friday While London and Toronto Also Pause Trading
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The Easter calendar interrupted regular market trading in the United States and several other major exchanges, though Easter Monday remained a normal session on Wall Street.
NEW YORK ? U.S. stock markets closed on Friday, April 3, for Good Friday, pausing regular trading on Wall Street before markets reopened on Monday, April 6.
The official NYSE holiday calendar lists Good Friday as a full-market closure in 2026, alongside the standard federal-market holidays such as Memorial Day, Labor Day and Thanksgiving.
The same schedule appears on Nasdaq's 2026 trading calendar, which confirms that U.S. stock trading was closed on April 3 but resumed with normal hours the following Monday.
That distinction matters because many overseas markets close on both Good Friday and Easter Monday. Nasdaq Canada's holiday calendar showed closures on both dates in 2026, unlike the U.S. schedule.
For investors, the key practical point was simple: there was no regular Wall Street session on Good Friday, but Easter Monday was not a U.S. market holiday.