What To Know About the Shortened Trading Week

U.S. financial markets will be closed on Thursday in observance of Independence Day.

Stock and bond trading will end early Wednesday afternoon ahead of the July 4 holiday.

Markets will operate on normal hours this Friday. The June jobs report will be released at 8:30 a.m. ET on Friday. Analysts’ median forecast expects that 200,000 non-farm payroll jobs were added last month, with unemployment remaining from May levels at 4%. 

After this week, there’s only one more summer trading holiday: Labor Day, on Monday, Sept. 2.

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