oversupply
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Still, he sees the worst is behind the Chinese solar sector, as government intervention and market forces may alleviate oversupply.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
A previous helium oversupply, a partial production rebound in Qatar and industry efforts to shore up helium stockpiles have helped keep the substance available.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 30, 2026
But in the Central Highlands there are concerns about the reliance on China, as well as the risks of oversupply as more farmers join the rush.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
California wine has already been contending with declining demand and global oversupply issues, leading to downsizing, closures and disposal of tons of grapes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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
“The oil market was well oversupplied at the outset.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
It’s not like the U.S. market is oversupplied with charismatic midengine sports cars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 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
The forgotten dead were Javanese—deserters from a sugar-plantation; for the tragedy happened long ago, when labour was being drawn from Java and other oversupplied countries.
From Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
Beyond oversupplying wholesale channels, management stumbled by attempting to pivot the traditionally male-centric line toward female consumers, an effort executives eventually walked back, according to Andreeva.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 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
