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It falls very close to a simple 7-yr. cycle between highs seen in the chart below. This year, the Shemitah ends on Sunday September13 – very close to the Hybrid Lindsay forecast for a high on ...

I have noticed much discussion about this cycle in recent weeks. The narrative is that it is a religious reflection of the Sabbath principle, whereby six days are for work and the seventh is for rest.

It’s the end of summer 2014. Rosh Hashanah is approaching, and with it the finale of the seven-year shmita cycle, a time when agricultural land lies fallow in Israel, perennials are harvested, and ...

At a time when billionaires around the world are counting their losses from the 'Black Monday' carnage, 'Shemitah', a little know Biblical term is keeping marketmen around the world busy. From US to ...

Will the stock market crash at the end of this Jewish year? A book that I picked off the shelf last month in Hudson’s News at Union Station in Washington DC is rather confident that it will. I was on ...

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Meaning the last year of a seven-year cycle in the Jewish calendar, the end of the past several Shemitahs have brought immense financial hardships to the world. The 1987 crash on Wall St. happened ...