This week is packed with holidays and celebrations. From Mardi Gras and the Lunar New Year on the day of the solar eclipse, to Lent and Ramadan.

Ivanka Trump wore the wrong color to ring in the Chinese Lunar New Year on a positive note. President Trump’s firstborn daughter marked the Chinese Lunar New Year in a post on X on Tuesday, writing,

Four rising humanoid robot startups demonstrated their products at the annual CCTV Spring Festival gala, a televised event and touchstone for China akin to the Super Bowl.

Shares in Asia were higher on Wednesday, with Japan’s benchmark gaining more than 1% after a quiet finish for U.S. stocks. Most markets in Asia stayed closed for Lunar New Year holidays. U.S. futures were flat and oil prices edged higher.

Chicagoans are celebrating Lunar New Year, a 15-day festival, by cleaning homes, paying debts, and shopping for lucky foods and gifts like oranges to welcome prosperity in the Year of the Fire Horse.

Put down your brooms, cancel that hair appointment and hold your horses because Lunar New Year is here, ushering in the Year of the Fire Horse. And at Lan Su Chinese Garden, holding your horses is more than a figure of speech.

Lunar New Year is being celebrated across the Houston area with dragon dances, special dinners and community events honoring the Year of the Horse.

Doing so would be equivalent to throwing away your luck. As Iskandar emphasizes, "don’t take out trash or do any sweeping on New Year’s Day itself as the acts symbolize your good luck for the year being trashed or swept away."