Union Budget 2025: Stock exchanges in India will remain open for trading on Budget Day 2025, despite it being a Saturday, NSE and BSE have shared two separate notifications. Markets will be open from 9 am to 3:30 pm for equity and till 5 pm for commodities. As is the convention, the budget for 2025-26 will be presented on February 1, 2025.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has so far held several meetings with various stakeholders including MSMEs, farmers’ associations and economists. On Friday, the finance minister chaired a meeting with states and union territories. The Ministry of Finance conducts several pre-budget consultative meetings annually with experts, industrialists, economists, and state officials.
The formal exercise of preparing the annual budget for the next financial year has begun. The 2025-26 budget will be Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s eighth budget. All eyes will be on key announcements and economic guidance from the government for the remainder of Modi 3.0.