Washington's Birthday/Presidents' Day February 16th U.S. Stock Markets closed

Washington's Birthday/Presidents' Day February 16th U.S. Stock Markets closed

Wallstreet is closed today.
Washington's Birthday was first declared a federal holiday by an 1879 act of Congress. The Monday Holiday Law, enacted in 1968, shifted the date of the commemoration of Washington's Birthday from February 22 to the third Monday in February, but neither that law nor any subsequent law changed the name of the holiday from Washington's Birthday to President's Day.

The third Monday in February has become popularly known as President's Day.