The Bond Market Is Shut Today. Its Own Schedule Lists No Status, Because a Full Close Is a Blank.
The US cash Treasury market does not trade today, and the fact is not stored anywhere your system can read it.
The industry association's own holiday schedule lists Veterans Day with no status label at all, because in that table a full close is encoded as the absence of an early-close line — the three nearest partial days are labelled "Early Close (2:00 p.m. Eastern Time)" and this one is blank, so a parser cannot tell a full close from a missing record. The status lives in a press release instead, issued 28 October, and that release says the closes are recommendations only and each member firm decides for itself. So the object is not a binary closure but an unknown fraction of dealers away, which is a sizing question rather than an on-off switch. The scope is three countries, not one: dollar-denominated fixed income in the US, the UK and Japan, so a filter keyed to American hours leaves the London morning marked normal. A general-market aggregator carries the field the issuer left blank, equities Open and bonds Closed as actual values, which inverts our own rule about preferring issuers to aggregators. Equities trade while the cash bond market does not, so any rule mixing a yield with an equity or FX input runs today on one stale input and two live ones — and we deliberately did not establish Treasury futures hours rather than infer them. We also found the second instance of yesterday's slug-versus-metadata defect, again exactly eight hours and again on a syndicated mirror, which makes it a fixed offset rather than an anecdote. And we formally drop the six-slot Dallas speech-time dispute, and explain seven missing option expiry boards as a scheduling fact: the only publisher that carries strikes with sizes posts at about 12:40 UTC and this slot runs at 06:00.