BSE and NSE will be closed on Tuesday, November 10 due to Diwali-Balipratipada. After a special ‘muhurta trading’ session on Sunday, markets resumed regular trading on Monday. In this special session, exchanges were opened for one hour to commemorate the beginning of the new Hindu fiscal year. The country’s largest commodity exchange, the ‘Multi-Commodity Exchange of India’ (MCX) will be closed for the session from 9 am to 5 pm on Tuesday. According to the exchange’s website, trading will resume in the evening session from 5 pm to 11:30 pm. At the same time, the ‘National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange Limited’ (NCDEX) will remain closed for the entire day.
Muhurta Trading 2026: Markets close lower
Indian equity markets held a one-hour special trading session on Sunday as investors began trading for the new Hindu financial year ‘Samvat 2083’. However, the Sensex and Nifty could not hold on to their early gains and eventually closed lower. This is the first time in the last 9 years that both the major indices (benchmark indices) have closed with losses in the same trading session.
The decline also snapped a six-session bull run in the markets. Last week, the Sensex gained 6,569 points, while the Nifty gained nearly 9%. Due to this strong recovery, the total market capitalization of companies listed on BSE increased by almost Rs. 29 lakh crore has increased, taking it to Rs. It has crossed the figure of 500 lakh crores.
Earlier, the major indices closed lower during the morning trading in 2017, while the Sensex fell 0.6%. Before that, in 2016 too, both the indices had registered a slight decline. These indices have closed lower only twice in the last 10 special Diwali trading sessions.
An increase was seen on Monday
When regular trading resumed on Monday, the entire stock market witnessed high volatility. Finally, both the Sensex and Nifty closed higher on lower crude oil prices. If we look at the data, BSE’s benchmark 30-share index Sensex rose 107.25 points or 0.13 percent to close at 81,106.65 points. It rose 340.01 points to 81,339.41 points at one point during trading. The 50-share benchmark index of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) Nifty closed up 58.25 points, or 0.23 per cent, at 25,044.65 points. Among the Sensex companies, shares of State Bank of India, Trent, Larsen & Toubro, NTPC, HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank were the biggest gainers. On the other hand, shares of HCL Tech, Tata Steel, Ultratech Cement and Bajaj Finance were down.
When will the markets close?
This year there will be a holiday in the stock market on 10th November due to Diwali-Balipratipada. The festival is associated with the symbolic return to earth of the demon king Mahabali and marks the beginning of the Shukla Paksha of the Hindu month of Kartika. After the November 10 holiday, the next holiday in BSE and NSE will be on November 24 to mark ‘Prakash Gurparva – Shri Guru Nanak Devji’. Apart from this, exchanges will also be closed on the occasion of Christmas on 25th December. A total of 16 stock market holidays were scheduled for the year 2026, of which 13 have already occurred. Exchange twice in April ‘Good Friday’ on April 3 and ‘Dr. B.R. It was closed on the occasion of Ambedkar Jayanti. Other holidays include ‘Maharashtra Day’ on 1 May, ‘Bakri Eid’ on 28 May, ‘Muharram’ on 26 June and ‘Ganesh Chaturthi’ on 14 September. In October, trade was closed on the occasion of ‘Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti’ on 2 October and ‘Dussehra’ on 20 October.





