Mercury's location in your birth chart influences all of this! Mercury never travels more than 28 degrees from the Sun, so many people will have Mercury in the same zodiac sign as their Sun.
From Monday to Friday, the stock market remains open from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm, EST. PST time is 6:30 am to 1:00 pm.
Because of the July 4 holiday, some U.S. markets will close early on Wednesday. The stock market will close at 1 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday. SIFMA has recommended an early close at 2 p.m. for the bond markets. Nymex and Comex trading will have a regular New York close, at 2:30 p.m. Eastern for crude-oil futures and 1:30 p.m. Eastern for gold futures. But there will be an early Chicago close (noon Central time) for CBOT grain futures. Currency futures trading on the CME will close early Wednesday at noon Central time.