national holiday

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Closed Monday for a national holiday and briefly insulated from heavy selling elsewhere, the South Korean stock market reopened Tuesday to heavy losses.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 3, 2026

Japanese markets are closed on Wednesday for a national holiday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Sharaa also issued a decree recognising Kurdish cultural, linguistic and civil rights by making Kurdish a national language, granting nationality to stateless Kurds, and declaring their new year a national holiday.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026

Weekends in Iran begin on Thursdays, while this Saturday marks a long-standing national holiday.

From Barron's • Dec. 31, 2025

If he’d been listening to the radio more regularly, he would have realized Friday was a national holiday and prepared for the possibility of no food line.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer