Financial Toolbox

busdate

Next or previous business day

Syntax

• Busday = busdate(Date, Direction, Holiday)
  

Arguments

Date	Reference date. Enter as serial date number or date string.
Direction	(Optional) Direction. 1 = next (default) or -1 = previous business day.
Holiday	(Optional) Vector of holidays and nontrading-day dates. All dates in Holiday must be the same format: either serial date numbers or date strings. (Using serial date numbers improves performance.) The holidays function supplies the default vector.

Description

Busday = busdate(Date, Direction, Holiday) returns the serial date number of the next or previous business day from the reference date.

Use the function datestr to convert serial date numbers to formatted date strings.

Examples

• Busday = busdate('3-Jul-2001', 1, holidays)
  Busday =
  
       731037
  
  datestr(Busday)
  
  ans =
  
  05-Jul-2001
  

See Also

holidays, isbusday

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