Stock market holidays 2025: Are NSE and BSE closed for Buddha Purnima on Monday?

NEW DELHI: The Indian inventory market, together with the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and the BSE confronted sturdy promoting strain in latest periods on account of geopolitical uncertainty. Amid rising India-Pakistan tensions, traders have been questioning if the inventory market shall be open on May 12, the day Buddha Purnima is well known nationwide. The excellent news: buying and selling will proceed as typical on Monday, May 12.According to the official BSE buying and selling vacation listing out there on bseindia.com, Buddha Purnima shouldn’t be a inventory market vacation in 2025. Therefore, the Indian inventory market will stay open on Monday, 12 May 2025, regardless of the pageant.The solely inventory market vacation in May 2025 was Maharashtra Day, noticed on 1 May. This means there isn’t any truncated buying and selling week this month.Looking forward, the subsequent inventory market vacation shall be on 15 August 2025 (Independence Day), adopted by Ganesh Chaturthi on 27 August 2025. In October, three holidays are listed — 2 October (Gandhi Jayanti/Dussehra), 21 October (Diwali), and 22 October (Diwali Balipratipada). Two extra holidays will observe within the 12 months: 5 November (Prakash Gurpurb) and 25 December (Christmas).The Sensex and Nifty 50 prolonged their dropping streak right into a second session on Friday, 9 May, amid heightened war-like rigidity with Pakistan. The Nifty 50 dropped by 265.80 factors (1.10%) to shut at 24,008, whereas the BSE Sensex fell 880.34 factors (1.10%), ending the session at 79,454.47.This pullback has left traders unsure — some are contemplating this a possible buy-the-dip second, whereas others choose to attend for extra readability on geopolitical developments earlier than making any huge strikes.