感恩节之后的星期五被称为“黑色星期五”，美股在这一天提前3小时收盘也形成了一个小传统。这一天通常被认为标志着年底购物旺季的正式开始，是零售业每年最重要的圣诞销售季业绩的晴雨表，也是一年中商家最看重也最繁忙的日子之一。
November 28 (Thursday) is the US Thanksgiving holiday, and the US stock market will be closed for one day. Brent crude oil futures contract trading under the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) ended early at 02:30 Beijing time the next day. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) precious metals and U.S. crude oil contract trading ended ahead of schedule at 03:30 Beijing time the next day, and the US bond market under CME was closed for one day.
November 29 (Friday) is the day after Thanksgiving. US stocks will be closed 3 hours early, that is, before 02:00 Beijing time the next day. Brent crude oil futures contract trading under the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) ended early at 03:00 Beijing time the next day. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) precious metals and U.S. crude oil contract trading ended early at 02:45 Beijing time the next day, and CME's US bond market trading ended early at 03:30 the next day.
Thanksgiving Day is a public holiday shared by the US and Canada, but the days are not the same. Thanksgiving Day was originally established to thank God for good harvests or good luck. In the US, Thanksgiving Day has been on the fourth Thursday of November every year since 1941. Similar to the Chinese Spring Festival, many Americans have to find ways to reunite with their families on this day no matter how busy they are. Canadian Thanksgiving Day began in 1879 and is on the second Monday of October every year, the same as Columbus Day in the US.
The Friday after Thanksgiving is called “Black Friday,” and it also forms a small tradition for US stocks to close 3 hours early on this day. This day is generally regarded as marking the official beginning of the peak shopping season at the end of the year. It is a barometer of the retail industry's most important Christmas sales season performance every year. It is also one of the most valued and busiest days of the year for merchants.
