The largest stock exchange in the world is reportedly gauging interest in becoming an around-the-clock operation.
According to the Financial Times, the New York Stock Exchange’s (NYSE) analytics team is surveying interest in after-hours trading.
FT says the interest is largely driven by the 24/7 world of crypto trading, which saw huge increases in retail investors during the 2020 pandemic.
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The NYSE evolving into an overnight trading option would represent a huge change for the world’s leading exchange. According to Georgetown University finance professor James Angel, the viability of the change should be decided by the free market, not the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
“I have no idea how much volume they’re going to be doing in the middle of the night. But it’s
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