oversupply

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Additionally, HDD makers face less of an oversupply risk than memory companies, which are now slowly adding capacity to address shortages after having been reluctant to do so, Woodring noted.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

Downtown has suffered from an oversupply of office space since a building spree in the 1980s and early 1990s.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

But experts have suggested that such rapid growth also led to lower teaching quality and an oversupply of graduates in the job market.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

As Barron’s has written, the memory-chip business is historically cyclical, with periods of undersupply followed by oversupply, leading to a fall across the sector.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

The result was that the high prices of today would be utterly destroyed by an oversupply of tomorrow.

From The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado by White, Stewart Edward