oversupply
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Secondly, the exit of smaller, financially strained operators has reduced oversupply.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 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
But the oversupply was a double whammy for those reeling from a poor harvest.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
From the employee's standpoint it was most desirable that the number of apprentices be kept down, as an oversupply of labor almost invariably resulted in a lowering of wages.
From The Psychology of Management The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste by Gilbreth, Lillian Moller
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
“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
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
That came as crude oil prices declined to the lowest point in more than four years, amid ongoing worries about an oversupplied global market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 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
