Getty Images Pay homage to U.S. military veterans.Veterans Day, intended to pay homage to U.S. military servicewomen and men, falls on a Saturday in 2017. As a result, the bond market, traditionally closed on the federal holiday, will be open on Friday. The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, known as Sifma, isn’t recommending that bond markets close in observance of Veterans Day this year, marking the first time in more than a decade that bond traders won’t have a day off in observance of the occasion. Here’s why: “Sifma generally bases our fixed-income market closure recommendations on the New York Federal Reserve’s holiday schedule. There is no market closure recommendation for Veterans Day 2017, consistent with historical practices,” Sifma spokeswoman Emily Reinus wrote in an email. Traders of assets like 10-year Treasury notes TMUBMUSD10Y, +0.26% and 30-year Treasury TMUBMUSD30Y, -0.15% didn’t observe Veterans Day during the regular workweek in 2006 and before that in 2000, when the holiday also fell on a Saturday.via