A bank holiday is a business day during which financial institutions are closed. But many online banking services continue to operate. Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former ...

Juneteenth commemorates the events of June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas when the last Black slaves of the Confederacy were ...

when recently elected President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared a “Bank Holiday,” shutting down the entire U.S. banking system for more than a week. A few days later, Congress passed the ...