Which U.S. stock exchange suspended trading for four days after the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy?

The New York Stock Exchange suspended trading for four days after the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963, a Friday. The New York Stock Exchange closed early that afternoon and remained closed on the following Monday through Thursday, reopening on November 26.

The shutdown reflected concerns about orderly markets and the practical difficulty of operating during a national emergency. When trading resumed, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose rather than collapsing, helped partly by expectations that Lyndon B. Johnson would maintain policy continuity.

This closure is often discussed alongside stock-market crashes, but it was not itself a crash. The exchange’s decision was an emergency trading suspension after a national tragedy, and the market’s reopening behavior differed from the panic selling seen in 1929, 1987, or 2020.