The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced to restore the trading timings of the central bank regulated markets to pre-pandemic levels from today (April 18).
Trading in the RBI-regulated markets will begin at 9 a.m. onwards from April 18.
The trading hours for various markets regulated by the RBI were changed on April 7, 2020, in response to the coronavirus pandemic, which caused operational disruptions and increased health risks.
“With the substantial easing of restrictions on movement of people and functioning of offices, it has now been decided to restore the opening time for regulated financial markets to their pre-pandemic timing of 9 am,” an RBI release had said.
The trading hours of the following markets will be from 9 am to 3.30 pm.
– Call/notice/term money; market repo in government securities
– Tri-party repo in government securities
– Commercial paper and certificates of deposit
– Repo in corporate bonds
– Government securities (central government securities, state development loans and treasury bills)
– Foreign Currency (FCY)/Indian Rupee (INR) trades, including forex derivatives
– Rupee interest rate derivatives.