‘Sleepy’ Mondays

More traders may be routinely taking three-day weekends this year: New York Stock Exchange trading volume has consistently been lower on Mondays than on most other days of the week. Here’s a look at composite NYSE volume on Mondays (in billions of shares) and the average daily volume for the rest of each week:

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* Skips 2/21 week because that Monday was the Presidents Day holiday.

Source: Times research