inventories

Example Sentences

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Shippers remain cautious and production facilities and inventories will take time to be restored.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

“That means heightened volatility and potentially sharp upside moves as markets prepare for a prolonged period of constrained oil supply, while global oil inventories continue to decline at record speed.”

From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026

That’s despite many Americans worrying about higher gasoline prices as the Iran war remains unresolved, with energy-supply disruptions persisting in the Strait of Hormuz while oil inventories fall in the U.S.

From MarketWatch • May 24, 2026

Fuel prices and shipping costs could take longer to decline than oil prices given depleted inventories and damage to production facilities, keeping an energy premium embedded in the global economy.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

They wanted to shape things/design things, create things, sell things, buy things, keep track of inventories, do somebody else’s taxes, and read somebody else’s X-rays from half a world away.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman