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Floral floats, marching bands and equestrian units follow the 5.5-mile route through Pasadena on New Year's Day under the 2027 theme, Welcome.

The Rose Bowl in Pasadena stages one of the four CFP quarterfinals on New Year's Day, with a top-four seed facing a first-round winner.

Huang expects Nvidia to sell twice as many chips in 2027 as in 2026, the unit-growth projection behind the roughly 70% fiscal 2028 revenue guide.

Austin Transit Partnership starts building a 9.8-mile line with 15 stations, running three ways out of downtown and crossing Lady Bird Lake on a new bridge. The board picked the Stacy Witbeck-Sundt joint venture Austin Rail Constructors in February 2026; the first trains are due in 2033 and the cost is put above $8.2 billion.

The third stage of the Mexico-Pachuca "Felipe Angeles" train runs 65 km of electrified double track from the AIFA airport terminal in the State of Mexico to Pachuca in Hidalgo, with stations at AIFA, Xaltocan II, Tizayuca-Temascalapa, Jaguey de Tellez and Pachuca plus four intermediate stops, and is meant to carry over 100,000 passengers a day in 1 hour 15 minutes end to end. The Felipe Angeles Engineers Corps of the defence ministry began construction in March 2025 and reported 37.06 per cent overall progress in June 2026.

Germany's statutory minimum wage goes up to €14.60 an hour on 1 January 2027, the second step of the largest increase the Minimum Wage Commission has recommended.

From 2027 Hershey says mini Reese's cups and shapes and the Fast Break bar will be coated in real milk chocolate instead of compound coating, the change promised after Brad Reese's recipe complaint.

At 11:59 p.m. on 31 December 2026 the Constellation Ball, 12.5 feet wide and covered in 5,280 Waterford crystals, makes its 60-second descent atop One Times Square to welcome 2027.