Robinhood Launching 24-Hour Weekday Stock Trading

Robinhood announced Wednesday that it will soon allow users to engage in 24-hour trading of select exchange-traded funds and stocks. As Fortune notes, this "will make it the first U.S. brokerage to provide overnight weekday trading in individual stocks." From the report: The 24-hour trading service will allow round-the-clock trading in 43 securities between 8 p.m. ET Sunday and 8 p.m. ET Friday, with plans to add more securities at a later time, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev told the Wall Street Journal. The feature will roll out next week in a limited capacity and will be available by June to all users, according to the Journal.

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