after-hours trading

noun [U] (also off-hours trading, also UK after-hours dealing) STOCK MARKET

Definition

› the buying and selling of stocks and shares after a financial market has closed for the day: Shares in the corporation fell nearly 4% in after-hours trading.

(Definition of after-hours trading noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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