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Short sellers raise bets against ASX retailers, lithium plays
Tom RichardsonJournalist
Traders are lifting bets on pandemic-era sharemarket darlings tumbling in value as surging cost inflation and receding household wealth threatens to deliver a whipsaw earnings season next month.
The violent macroeconomic shift has left analysts scrambling to update profit forecasts for financial 2023, and short sellers lining up their ducks as ASX companies risk missing guidance.
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