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World markets, right now
Index levels only tell you half the story. A quiet FTSE at 03:00 in London means nothing; the same number thirty minutes after the opening bell means a great deal. This page puts live prices beside the trading hours that give them context.
The tape
Major indices and currencies, updating live. If a value looks frozen, the market behind it is almost certainly closed — check the clock to see which sessions are running.
Currencies, stocks, crypto, indices and commodities
Five tabs, five asset classes, each on its own schedule. Pick a symbol to chart it and switch the range from one day to twenty years. Indices freeze the moment their exchange closes; currencies and crypto keep going, which is exactly why they can disagree so sharply by the time the bell rings again.
Why the hours matter more than the numbers
Three quirks catch people out, and none of them are visible in a price alone.
- An index can be stale for sixteen hours a day. The FTSE 100 prints its last value at 16:30 in London and does not move again until 08:00 the next morning. The futures contract on it, however, keeps trading — which is why the two can disagree wildly before the open.
- Volume clusters in the overlaps. When London and New York are both open, roughly 13:30 to 16:30 UTC, you get the deepest liquidity of the day in both equities and FX. Outside it, the same order moves the price further. See the overlaps on the clock.
- Daylight saving breaks the pattern twice a year. The United States changes clocks on the second Sunday of March, Europe on the last. For two weeks the London–New York overlap shifts by an hour, and Tokyo — which has no daylight saving at all — drifts against both.
Full opening and closing times for thirty-one exchanges are in the trading hours guide.
Which markets are open, in UTC
The times below are the regular cash sessions in Coordinated Universal Time, so they can be compared directly. Local opening times never change; their UTC equivalent shifts when the country moves its clocks, which is noted in the last column.
| Market | Local hours | UTC (winter) | Clock change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sydney (ASX) | 10:00–16:00 | 23:00–05:00 | Apr / Oct |
| Tokyo (JPX) | 09:00–15:00 | 00:00–06:00 | None |
| Hong Kong (HKEX) | 09:30–16:00 | 01:30–08:00 | None |
| Frankfurt (Xetra) | 09:00–17:30 | 08:00–16:30 | Mar / Oct |
| London (LSE) | 08:00–16:30 | 08:00–16:30 | Mar / Oct |
| New York (NYSE) | 09:30–16:00 | 14:30–21:00 | Mar / Nov |
Tokyo and Hong Kong never change their clocks. Everyone else does, and not on the same weekend — which is why the gap between Tokyo and New York is fourteen hours for most of the year and thirteen for part of it. The live clock handles the arithmetic for you and shows the current state of all of them at once.
Why the index and its future disagree
You will often see a headline saying an index is down before its market has opened. Strictly speaking that is impossible: an index is a calculation over live share prices, and with no shares trading there is nothing to calculate. What is moving is the futures contract, which trades nearly around the clock and represents what buyers and sellers think the index will be worth later.
The two converge at the opening bell, sometimes violently. A future that has drifted two per cent overnight forces the cash market to open at a gap, because the first trades have to reconcile with where the future already is. This is the mechanism behind most large opening moves, and it is why an index quote alone can mislead you about where a market is heading before it opens.