oversupply
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Higher-cost inventories and global oversupply are likely to keep weighing on producers even after shipping disruptions ease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
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
“I think there was a level of disbelief that there would be a significant pickup because it felt like oversupply had been there forever,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 3, 2026
With an oversupply of tobacco in the warehouses, English and Scots merchants limited further credit extensions and called for repayment of long-outstanding loans.
From The Road to Independence: Virginia 1763-1783 by Virginia. History, Government, and Geography Service
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
At the same time, the prices of Air Jordan 1s and Air Force 1s on the platform have recovered, a sign the market is no longer oversupplied.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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
In an interview in February, Fluence CEO Julien Nebrada told Barron’s the battery market will be oversupplied for the next few years.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
Some of the reservations are oversupplied with schools, while others, notably the Navajo, have almost none.
From The Indian To-day The Past and Future of the First American by Charles Alexander Eastman
That is a sign that Asics isn’t oversupplying the market with its lifestyle sneakers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 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
