Read: Santa Claus bestows attractive odds of a rally in the stock market.The U.S. Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association recommends a 2 p.m. close for trading in bonds on Thursday Dec. 23, including the 10-year Treasury note TMUBMUSD10Y, 1.459%, but there will be no early close for equity markets, per the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq recommendations.In the commodities complex, energy and metals markets, will close at their normal times, with trading of metals, including gold futures GC00 on Comex, set to end at 1:30 p.m. ET, and West Texas Intermediate crude-oil trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange slated to wrap up at 2:30 p.m. See: Here’s the holiday schedule for the CME. Global financial markets mostly will be closed on Friday, Dec. 31, 2021, or Monday, Jan. 3, 2022, for New Year’s Day observed, but U.S. markets won’t.
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