oversupply
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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
Eventually, that created an oversupply of capacity, said Joel Sutherland, a professor of supply-chain management at the University of San Diego’s Knauss School of Business.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 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
Every day we see illustrations of its working: prices are depressed when there is an oversupply, and elevated when the demand of would-be consumers exceeds the supply of the commodities they desire to buy.
From Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles by John Spargo
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
Some analysts were forecasting $50 oil toward the end of 2025 because of an oversupplied market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
They are strategically underweight cyclicals, such as AI-beneficiary technology hardware companies that they think will eventually face the risk of an oversupplied market.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 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
The market would get oversupplied with oil and profits would fall.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
The need for a medium of exchange is oversupplied.
From New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various
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
