Union Budget 2015-16: Stock market may remain open

Stock exchanges are considering trading on February 28, the budget day , which falls on a Saturday.

"If Sebi wishes we will be open on budget day. We await a direction from regulator," a spokesman for the National Stock Exchange (NSE), the country's top exchange, said.

A source at the BSE said the exchange was in talks with the NSE and capital markets regulator Sebi, but no decision has been taken yet.

(Reuters)