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
Shares of the plastics and chemicals giant have been battered by a combination of cyclical industry downturns, global oversupply, and margin pressure.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
“We’ll need to have an oversupply in the oil market just to build back inventories, for a while,” Thummel adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
The making of cheese was known in ancient times, it having probably originated through a desire to utilize an oversupply of milk.
From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables 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
Macquarie downgrades AGL to underperform from neutral, stating that Australia’s electricity market is structurally oversupplied.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 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
The market would get oversupplied with oil and profits would fall.
From Barron's ● May 5, 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
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
