Black coastal town celebrates history while fighting to preserve it
Officials in Maryland’s Black coastal town of Eagle Harbor reflect on its rich history and heritage ahead of Juneteenth.
The U.S. stock market will be closed on Friday, June 19th in observance of Juneteenth.
The Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchanges will be closed on Friday and will reopen on Monday, June 22, according to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. The US bond market will also be closed on June 19th.
Juneteenth, known as America’s second Independence Day, will be commemorated as a federally recognized holiday starting in 2021, giving millions of Americans a paid holiday and an opportunity to commemorate the end of slavery.
The holiday commemorates the day in 1865, two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, that Major General Gordon Granger led 2,000 Union troops into Galveston Bay, Texas, and declared the state’s more than 250,000 enslaved black people free.
After Juneteenth closes, it will be business as usual on Wall Street until early July. The next scheduled stock market closure is Friday, July 3rd, in observance of Independence Day.
US stock market holiday schedule for 2026
The market will be closed on the following holidays:
- juneteenth: Friday June 19th
- independence day: Friday, July 3rd
- labor day: Monday, September 7th
- Thanksgiving: Thursday, November 26th
- Christmas: Friday, December 25th
Gabe Hauari is USA TODAY’s national trends news reporter. You can follow him at X @gabehauari Or email Gdhauari@usatodayco.com.
