Stock markets may remain open on Budget day

Reuters Updated - January 21, 2015 at 04:36 PM.

India’s stock exchanges are considering trading on Feb. 28, the federal budget day, which falls on a Saturday.

“If SEBI wishes we will be open on budget day. We await a direction from regulator,’’ a spokesman for the National Stock Exchange (NSE), the country’s top exchange, said.

A source at the BSE said the exchange was in talks with the NSE and capital markets regulator SEBI, but no decision has been taken yet.

Published on January 21, 2015 10:07