oversupply
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Chief Executive Sherman Miller said Cal-Maine faced a particularly challenging quarter, as oversupply drove egg prices to historically low inflation-adjusted levels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
An outbreak of African Swine Fever in Spain has halted exports to countries like China and led to an oversupply of pork across Europe which is significantly driving down wholesale prices.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
“Aramco’s price cuts reinforce market concerns about oversupply and the potential for a price war, as Middle Eastern supply is recovering faster than demand,” said Muyu Xu, senior crude oil analyst at Kpler.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 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
The same thing may be said of acid foods; that is, an oversupply of these is just as distasteful as too many bland foods.
From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
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
“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
In an interview in February, Fluence CEO Julien Nebrada told Barron’s the battery market will be oversupplied for the next few years.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
It was too late for the oversupplied U.S. market, which went negative a week later.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
The forgotten dead were Javanese—deserters from a sugar-plantation; for the tragedy happened long ago, when labour was being drawn from Java and other oversupplied countries.
From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
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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