Today the stock market will be closed on 2 October. Today both Dussehra and Gandhi Jayanti are falling on the same day. This week will be small due to holidays. The business will resume on Friday, October 3. Today, banks as well as banks will be closed. Schools and colleges will also be closed on 2 October. However, their holiday programs are different in different states.
The Indian stock market will have three business holidays in October 2025. These are in addition to normal weekends (Saturdays and Sundays). Thus, the market will remain closed for a total of 11 days in October. NSE and BSE have released their official holiday list. According to this, business in equity, commodity and currency segment will remain closed for three days. These days are 2 October, 21 October and 22 October.
Why will the business be closed for the rest of the day?
Business will remain closed on 21 October. The market will be closed on this day due to Diwali Lakshmi Pujan. The next day, there will be no business on 22 October. It will remain closed due to a part of the festival of Diwali, Balipratipada. There will also be no trading in the MCX and currency derivatives segment. These three days will remain closed.
Muhurta Trading on Diwali
There will be a special ‘Muhurta trading’ session on Diwali. NSE and BSE have announced this in their circular of 22 September. This one hour trading session will run from 1:45 pm to 2:45 pm on October 21. Investors can change their trade by 2:55 pm. The exchange has also clarified that general settlement rules will apply to all trades conducted in this special session. This session is considered auspicious for new investment. ‘Settlement rules’ means that the accounts and money transactions of the stocks purchased and sold will be similar to normal days.
The market will remain closed on this day
Apart from the October holidays, the market will remain closed in November and December. On November 5, the market will be closed due to Prakash Parv Shri Guru Nanak Dev. There will be a holiday in the market on Christmas on 25 December. Festivals and holiday weather is coming together. Therefore, most of the market activities will be around the ‘Muhurta Trading’ session.
Fast in the market today
The Indian stock market closed very fast in Wednesday’s trading session. After the announcement of the decisions of RBI MPC, shopping was seen in all indices. At the end of trading, the Sensex rose 715.69 points or 0.89 percent to 80,983.31 and the Nifty rose 225.20 points or 0.92 percent to close at 24,836.30.
The most profitable shares in the Sensex included Tata Motors, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Trent, Sun Pharma, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Adani Ports, Mahindra & Mahindra, Tech Mahindra, International (Zomato), Titan, HUL and BEL. The shares of Bajaj Finance, SBI, UltraTech Cement, Tata Steel, Asian Paints, Bharti Airtel and Maruti Suzuki were the biggest decline.