oversupply
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oversupplies
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The government-imposed cap, introduced in 2017 to tackle oversupply and reduce emissions during a period of rapid expansion in the industry, applies to installed smelting capacity rather than actual annual production.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Saxo Markets said AI valuations assume a relentless pace of model development, warning that memory chips could face oversupply risks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
“Traditionally memory shortages don’t last forever, and memory companies want to get the benefits while they can before the cycle swings to oversupply again,” Gold said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
A previous helium oversupply, a partial production rebound in Qatar and industry efforts to shore up helium stockpiles have helped keep the substance available.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 30, 2026
Regardless of the scarcity or oversupply of labor, personal efficiency will tend to enable the worker to receive larger wages than would otherwise be possible.
From Problems in American Democracy by Thames Ross Williamson
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
They are strategically underweight cyclicals, such as AI-beneficiary technology hardware companies that they think will eventually face the risk of an oversupplied market.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Macquarie downgrades AGL to underperform from neutral, stating that Australia’s electricity market is structurally oversupplied.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 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
Reckon them up and you would have a sufficiency of leading men to outfit plays for every theater in New York, oversupplied as that city is with them.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 by Various
Beyond oversupplying wholesale channels, management stumbled by attempting to pivot the traditionally male-centric line toward female consumers, an effort executives eventually walked back, according to Andreeva.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 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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