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

But the deal had to be unwound within a decade with the falling fortunes of AOL, which used an inflated share price for the deal.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

“Alternatively, the 36,000 ton inventory build should be unwound into an increasingly resilient 4Q26 price environment,” Jefferies says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

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

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

The path unwound; perhaps it was taking them somewhere, willfully, since neither of them could step off it and go knowingly into the annihilation of whiteness that was the grass on either side.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson