The NYSE closure each Good Friday is unrelated to religion. It is to remember a 1920 anarchist bomb attack on Wall St., that killed 39 people.
The NYSE closure each Good Friday is unrelated to religion. It is to remember a 1920 anarchist bomb attack on Wall St., that killed 39 people.
Actually, The New York Stock Exchange has been closed in observance of Good Friday since its inception in 1792.
Nice bit of history though.