Good Friday: Are U.S. Stock Markets, Dow Jones, S&P 500, Nasdaq open on Friday, April 3?

Good Friday is here and it's holiday time as the long weekend awaits the Americans. From the trade perspective, U.S. stock markets indexes Dow Jones, S&P 500, Nasdaq, which are witnessing roller-coaster ride, will take breather on Friday. U.S. Stock Markets will be closed on April 3 for Good Friday. Markets have been broadly sliding since the war began, with indexes often rising and falling sharply along with statements from Trump about the direction of the war. Just on Monday, the S&P 500 briefly neared a 10% drop from its record, a steep-enough fall that professional investors have a name for it: a “correction. It gained ground Tuesday and Wednesday on hope that the war could end soon.

Good Friday is a unique — and uniquely solemn — day in the Christian calendar. It commemorates the crucifixion and death of Jesus, ahead of what’s a central tenet of faith for believers — his resurrection two days later on Easter Sunday, according to the Gospels.

This year, it falls on April 3 for Catholics and Protestants, and April 10 for Orthodox Christians.


Across Christian denominations, Good Friday services are unlike those on most other days. They often include centuries-old, once-a-year traditions both during the liturgy and out in the streets, where elaborate processions and other rituals of fervent popular piety are held.

While Catholics gather, it’s the only day without an actual Mass, because there’s no sacrament of the Eucharist, which is the transformation of bread and wine into Jesus’ body and blood according to the church. Orthodox Christians don’t celebrate the Eucharist either on what they call Great and Holy Friday.

Church services tend to last more than an hour, usually starting at 3 p.m. (local time), when tradition says Jesus died. But even though it’s not a day of obligation, and it’s a workday in the United States, churches tend to be packed.