unwound

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Some observers, such as Nomura’s cross-asset strategist Charlie McElligott, think confirmation of a deal may trigger a sell-the-news pullback for stocks as already over-exuberant positions are unwound.

From MarketWatch • May 29, 2026

The dollar trade also unwound in April as investors saw less of a need to pile into one of the global markets’ safest places.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

"How much the Manus deal can actually be unwound is, in my view, a secondary issue," Angela Zhang, a law professor at the University of Southern California, told AFP.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

Traders unwound pair trades where long positions in gold were offset by shorts in bitcoin.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

Eventually, there were deserts and more forests and mountain ranges and even an ocean, all accessible by large networks of roads that unwound this way and that, like great spools of yarn.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill