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What Happens If Stock Markets Never Sleep?

On the Big Take podcast, the potential upside to keeping stock markets open all hours of the day and night – and the perils if money actually never sleeps.

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York.

Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
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There is a growing push from retail traders, international investors, and a few big hedge funds to do something once unthinkable: keep stock markets open for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. But when do traders sleep if Wall Street never shuts?