oversupply
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oversupplies
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There is currently much debate about whether we have a compute oversupply heading into 2027 and the following year, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
Chinese automakers are dealing with weakening demand and oversupply issues after years of rapid expansion and intense competition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Portland’s rental market stalled out in recent years as an oversupply of new housing collided with an economic slump.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Meanwhile, the price of lab-grown diamonds — or diamonds made by emulating the earth’s natural heat and pressure conditions — has fallen, as technological advances and production expansion lead to oversupply.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
This assumes, of course, that competition is effective, i.e., that there is neither an oversupply or an undersupply of either employers or employees.
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
The rise in Middle Eastern exports, lower Chinese imports and non-OPEC+ oil supply growth should see oversupplied conditions in crude oil markets, he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
It’s not like the U.S. market is oversupplied with charismatic midengine sports cars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
“Oil markets tend to project forward, so an extended period of an oversupplied oil market, which assumes uninterrupted global oil flows, could push oil prices into the $60s,” said Thummel.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026
For one, the markets were oversupplied in 2025, which resulted in fat stockpiles that are still relatively plentiful, albeit declining.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 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
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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