The Indian equity market is going through a tricky period, with the marquee indices struggling with a bearish investor sentiment. The equity markets ended the day on Monday, February 24, with colossal losses.

However, the equity markets have started the new day, Tuesday, February 25 on a positive note, trading green for the first time, in a long time.

What about Wednesday Then?

Well, as for Wednesday, February 26, there will be no markets, as the Indian equity markets will be non-operational for the day. Both the NSE and BSE will be taking a mid-week break on account of Maha Shivratri.

Maha Shivratri has been marked a holiday, as per the NSE and BSE website.

As of today, Tuesday, February 25, the BSE Sensex, at the time of writing, is trading in green, with minor gains. At the time of writing, the Sensex was trading green with gains of 0.36 per cent or 267.00 points, slumping to 74,721.41 points.

In addition, the banks will be closed as well. Purchases of stocks made during the day would be only reflected in Demat account on Thursday, February 27, when the markets resume.

Thereafter, the markets will be operational for the next 2 days, before breaking for weekend on Saturday, March 1. This would also mark the first day of the last month of the current fiscal year, FY25. After March 2025, the markets will enter the new fiscal year, FY26 or FY 2025-26.

The next market holiday arrives on the occasion of Holi, on March 14, 2025 Friday.

The Indian equity market are going through a tricky period, with the marquee indices struggling with a bearish investor sentiment. The equity markets ended the day on Monday, February 24 with colossal losses.

Markets Today

As of today, Tuesday, February 25, the BSE Sensex, at the time of writing, is trading in green, with minor gains. At the time of writing, the Sensex was trading green with gains of 0.36 per cent or 267.00 points, slumping to 74,721.41 points.

The NSE Nifty 50 was also trading green with gains of 35.15 points or 0.16 per cent. This took the overall value of the index to 22,588.50.

When it comes to the Nifty Bank index, the story was the same, as the index was trading in green with minor gains, reaching 48,727.25 points with an uptick of 75.30 points or 0.15 per cent.