By Eamon Murphy
Filed under: NYSE, Market News, NASDAQ, Stock Markets
The global economy is a perpetual motion machine, but U.S. stock markets do take breaks: In addition to the weekends, there are nine holidays on which the stock exchange is shuttered.
One of them is coming up this Monday: Presidents Day, a federal holiday that began in 1879 as an observance of George Washington‘s birthday, Feb. 22. The date was changed to the third Monday of the month by the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, which went into effect on Jan. 1, 1971. When that law was being drafted, it…
U.S. Stock Markets Will Be Closed on Presidents Day originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2013-02-15T15:11:00Z.