Our Quick Clicks Create New Content Licensing FAQs Trading Around the Clock Stock trading goes on around the world, around the clock, in an electronic global marketplace.
Markets operate on daylight savings time part of the year.
As the trading ends in one city, activity shifts to another city, sweeping the changes in price around the world. Before the New York markets close, for example, trading begins in Wellington. Two and a half hours after Tokyo closes, London opens. And with two and a half hours to go in London, trading resumes in New York. The global market explains why a stock can end trading one day at a specific price and open the next day at a different price.