New York, N.Y., August 21, 2017 — SIFMA has confirmed its previous holiday recommendation for a full market close on Monday, September 4 for the trading of U.S. dollar-denominated fixed-income securities in the U.S., the U.K., and Japan in observance of Labor Day.

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SIFMA is the voice of the U.S. securities industry. We represent the broker-dealers, banks and asset managers whose nearly 1 million employees provide access to the capital markets, raising over $2.5 trillion for businesses and municipalities in the U.S., serving clients with over $18.5 trillion in assets and managing more than $67 trillion in assets for individual and institutional clients including mutual funds and retirement plans. SIFMA, with offices in New York and Washington, D.C., is the U.S. regional member of the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA). For more information, visit http://www.sifma.org.