Why is the stock market closed on Good Friday?

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its very religious good friday there was no stock market and whos going to look at the stock market when jesus just died

Good Friday is a superstitious holiday for people in the brokerage business. The markets being closed have nothing to do with celebrating a religious holiday - it dates back to the Great Depression.

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