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
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
The draft reaffirms CBA’s view that Australia’s Queensland state faces a substantial oversupply, but southern states may remain balanced to undersupplied, Dhar says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
With an oversupply of tobacco in the warehouses, English and Scots merchants limited further credit extensions and called for repayment of long-outstanding loans.
From The Road to Independence: Virginia 1763-1783 by Virginia. History, Government, and Geography Service
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
In oversupplied Sunbelt housing markets such as Atlanta and Nashville, Tenn., seven in 10 sellers are now offering concessions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
“The oil market was well oversupplied at the outset.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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
“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
Several large smelters had not found it profitable to install recovery plants, as the market might have been oversupplied and prices were low.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
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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