inventories

Example Sentences

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Memory chips have long been a commoditized part of the semi industry, directly exposed to consumer demand, which leads to sharp fluctuations in inventories and prices.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

Others cite soft demand signals, high Chinese inventories and elevated long positions—or bets among investors that prices will rise—as reasons for caution.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

“A cease-fire may reopen shipping lanes, it does not immediately replenish inventories, restore damaged infrastructure or normalize trade flows.”

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

Under normal circumstances, oil prices could have risen “substantially,” given the scale of the disruption, including the closure of the strait, constrained Iranian crude supply and declining global inventories, Innes said.

From MarketWatch • May 29, 2026

They wanted to shape things/design things, create things, sell things, buy things, keep track of inventories, do somebody else’s taxes, and read somebody else’s X-rays from half a world away.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman