Christmas Eve is the Christmas Holiday half day published by the London Stock Exchange for equities trading in England and Wales. The Exchange is part of London Stock Exchange Group. The entry covers On Exchange Trading Services, including the SETS order book.
It is not a NON-trading day, unlike Christmas Day and Boxing Day on 26 December. Each date row also shows off-book reporting and settlement status.
The calendar is a standing rolling table on the Business days page, not a timed data release. Each holiday has 1 row with date and weekday, holiday label, on-exchange impact, settlement flag and off-book status, alongside the full bank-holiday table. On the Christmas half-day row, the closing process starts at 12:30 London time, settlement runs as standard and off-book reporting stays available as normal.
When 24 December falls on a weekend, the preceding Friday takes the half-day label. There is no fixed publication day or time and no fixed revision schedule, but the Exchange keeps its days of operation under review. The Business Parameters workbook, the MIT201 system guide and the settlement calendar are linked alongside.
Four calendar entries shape the half day, with no weights, sampling or thresholds.
On Friday 24 December 2021, a weekday Christmas Eve, the exchange ran the half-day rule with standard settlement and normal off-book reporting. UK shares closed nearly flat in light pre-Christmas trading, with the blue-chip FTSE 100 flat at 7,372.10. The FTSE 250 was also flat, yet weekly gains stayed strong on hopes the economy could weather Omicron. A miners and banks surge kept the month near its strongest run in almost a year, though thin trade left the day flat, not closed.
Christmas Eve is not a full closure, bank holiday or NON-trading day. The table shows a half day from 12:30 with standard settlement, against full NON-trading and NON-settlement rows for Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
No historical data available
