oversupply
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“It is not just base pricing, but volatility has collapsed as markets are in oversupply and batteries have successfully taken over the day-to-day work of gas plants,” Macquarie says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
In 2022, the memory industry became flooded with chips — an oversupply issue that led to a fall in prices in 2023 that lasted into early 2025.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 3, 2026
This generosity is being fuelled by an oversupply of durian across the border in Malaysia, which typically produces about 550,000 tonnes a year.
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
This much kale may seem an enormous oversupply, but between salads and steaming greens with potatoes we manage to eat almost all the tender small leaves it grows during winter.
From Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway by Solomon, Steve
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
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
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
Overall, Lee maintains a cautious view on oil prices as the market remains oversupplied and prices are expected to trade in a rangebound manner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
The oil market is oversupplied by as much as 500,000 barrels to well over two million barrels a day this year, depending on who you ask.
From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 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
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
