oversupply
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“At best earnings will correct in FY29, and risk is the oversupply price event extends to FY31 with delayed coal retirements.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
The long-term threat of oversupply looms over the industry, and some shipping lines continue to order massive new vessels, which could hurt future profitability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
But the oversupply was a double whammy for those reeling from a poor harvest.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
JPMorgan cut its 2027 oil price target to $63 from $75, while Citi sees potential 4 million barrels per day oversupply.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
To many of us this loss is not so great, for the beauty of the wood counts for more, and is not detracted from by an oversupply of metal ornament, as sometimes happened in France.
From Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today by Throop, Lucy Abbot
The Calgary-based company in 2009 spun off Cenovus Energy Inc. to focus on natural gas as prices for the resource began falling because of oversupplies generated by an onshore drilling boom in North America.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 10, 2011
However, farmers should stop worrying so much about price-deflating oversupplies of beef and other meats.
From Time Magazine Archive
It’s not like the U.S. market is oversupplied with charismatic midengine sports cars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
In an oversupplied market, data-center customers are likely to “shift from making purchase decisions based on what’s available to prioritizing the best technology,” according to RBC.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
“The market still looks oversold, not oversupplied, and the ‘well-supplied’ signal out of Asia is a drawdown, not necessarily an influx of Hormuz barrels,” said Kyle Bertamini, an analyst with Enverus Intelligence Research.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
He noted the company’s strategic decision not to own inventory, which he thinks will pay off in an oversupplied market.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 25, 2026
Some of the reservations are oversupplied with schools, while others, notably the Navajo, have almost none.
From The Indian To-day The Past and Future of the First American by Eastman, Charles Alexander
That is a sign that Asics isn’t oversupplying the market with its lifestyle sneakers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
But memory providers have been reluctant to add more capacity out of fear of oversupplying a typically cyclical market.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 27, 2026
But Steur’s lawyers said that the company began to intentionally oversaturate the market, oversupplying law enforcement.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2022
A more intense construction blitz also risks oversupplying the market.
From Reuters ● May 1, 2022
If the goal of graduate programs is to create highly trained scientists, then these programs are oversupplying the workforce by the hundreds of thousands.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2022
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