oversupplied

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It was too late for the oversupplied U.S. market, which went negative a week later.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

The oil market is oversupplied by as much as 500,000 barrels to well over two million barrels a day this year, depending on who you ask.

From Barron's • Jan. 13, 2026

The problem is that the world is oversupplied with oil today, and oil prices are almost certain to head lower—perhaps as low as $50 from around $60 today.

From Barron's • Jan. 6, 2026

“I don’t think anyone’s opinion about what’s happening in crude is changing based on these geopolitical headlines…that we’re going to be oversupplied in the first quarter and that we’re oversupplied right now.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

The forgotten dead were Javanese—deserters from a sugar-plantation; for the tragedy happened long ago, when labour was being drawn from Java and other oversupplied countries.

From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)