New Delhi, Jan. 28 -- Stock markets will be open on Saturday like any other weekday and frenzied buying or selling could be seen as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman reads out Budget announcements.

The Narendra Modi government has advanced the date of the Budget from last working day to first working day. Stock markets usually remain closed on Saturdays and Sundays. But in 2015, when the then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the Budget on a Saturday, exchanges were kept open for regular trading hours.So on February 1, the exchanges would be kept open in spite of the day being a Saturday.This year's Budget is seen to be crucial considering the sagging economy with the GDP sliding to six year low in the July-September quarter.Fina...