Share Market Holiday: Indian stock market will be closed today, due to Ambedkar Jayanti 2025 and no trading in the equity market will take place on April 14.
April has 3 stock market holidays, which includes the offs on 10 April 2025 for Shri Mahavir Jayanti, 14 April 2025 for Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar Jayanti, and 18 April 2025 for Good Friday. Notably, all the trading activities on NSE and BSE will remain closed today.
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Meanwhile, the Equity segment, Equity Derivative segment, SLB segment and Currency Derivatives segments will also remain close today.
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In the recent times, Indian equities are under pressure due to the global recession fears because of the announcement of reciprocal tariffs by the US President Donald Trump. However, the pressure eased after President Trump announced 90 days halt on the tariff plan. Meanwhile, trade tensions between the US and China continues to escalate.
India’s benchmark indices, Sensex and Nifty50, ended the Friday's trade in green. The Sensex (index with top 30 firms) surged 1310.11 points to close at 75,157.26 on Friday. Meanwhile, Nifty50 (index with top 50 firms) was up 429.40 points to close at 22,828.55 points. Among the Sensex-packed stocks, 18 closed in green, while 2 in red.
Share Market Holiday: What Else?
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently announced its first monetary policy of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025-26 today, April 9. The RBI has reduced the benchmark repo rate by 25 basis points (bps) to 6.00% from 6.25%.
However, several experts wanted a more robust, 50 basis points rate cut in the repo rate.
RBI Governor Malhotra unveiled the decision in the monetary policy statement on Wednesday. During his address, Malhotra pointed out towards the global uncertainties following the reciprocal tariffs announcement by US President Donald Trump.
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