{"id":293805,"date":"2026-04-05T16:03:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/?p=293805"},"modified":"2026-04-05T16:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:20:09","slug":"bi-weekly-holiday-stock-market-to-open-on-friday-from-next-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/bi-weekly-holiday-stock-market-to-open-on-friday-from-next-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bi-weekly holiday: Stock market to open on Friday from next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The stock market is set to open on Friday as well. <\/p>\n<p>KATHMANDU: The one-party government of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) today has decided to give a public holiday for the government offices and educational institutions on Sunday for two days in a week. The government has decided to give a two-day holiday in view of the supply of petroleum products. <\/p>\n<p>With the government&#8217;s decision to give a two-day holiday in a week, the share market will be opened from Monday to Friday from next week. &#8220;The stock market has already opened on Sunday this week,&#8221; a Nepse source said, &#8220;So the market will be closed on Sunday next week and preparations are being made to open on Friday.&#8221; \u2019<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson of Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE), Murahari Parajuli, said that the board of directors of Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) will take a decision on operating the market on Friday. &#8220;There has been no conversation about this at the moment. The NEPSE Board of Directors will decide,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>Prior to this, the stock market had opened on Friday from May 6, 2022. At that time, the then government had also decided to give a public holiday on Saturday and Sunday for two days in a week. <\/p>\n<p>However, the then government had withdrawn its decision to give a holiday for two days a week within a month. However, from June 15, 2022, NEPSE had decided to open the stock market for six days a week, Sunday to Friday. At that time, the market was open until 1 p.m. on Fridays. <\/p>\n<p>At that time, NEPSE had decided to stop trading on Friday, saying that the share market which opened on Friday for a few weeks was not practical again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The stock market is set to open on Friday as well. KATHMANDU: The one-party government of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) today has decided to give a public holiday for the government offices and educational institutions on Sunday for two days in a week. The government has decided to give a two-day holiday in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":228891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45031,45159,45180],"tags":[55406],"class_list":["post-293805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banner-news-en","category-news-en","category-stockmarket-en","tag-nepse-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293806,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293805\/revisions\/293806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/228891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}