buffer
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“If Brent crude remains above $100 a barrel for long, the tax-refund buffer will eventually be exhausted, real income growth will compress further, and aggregate demand will slow.”
From Barron's • May 4, 2026
The buffer that the oil market has relied on following disruptions to exports in the Middle East could start to buckle as soon as early June, according to strategists at J.P.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
AI has provided a buffer for tech-heavy economies, especially as the AI build-out increasingly relies on physical infrastructure from Asia, including chips, memory, advanced packaging, power and data centers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
The quarterly application of the buffer worked out well for investors, especially during the second quarter of that year.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026
“He’s got an eleven-thousand-mile buffer zone from all this sweetness and light.”
From "Ungifted" by Gordon Korman
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