Buy the bombed

Monday 23 June 2025

The Market Ear with the charts.

Already bombed out

This email is just a reminder that sentiment and positioning metrics were already pretty depressed going into this weekend. From hedge funds to quants, longs are light which should leave less room for an unwind panic. Here are a couple of our favorite charts.

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About the author

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.