shortfall
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"Where costs rise above the ceiling, refiners and importers will carry the shortfall and recover it later when crude prices or exchange rates allow without breaching the ceiling," he said,
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Most were ready to handle the revenue shortfall by increasing fees, assessments and utility taxes, according to the note.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
More than 1 billion barrels have been drawn from stocks to offset the shortfall, mostly from onshore commercial inventories, Nasser said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
More than 1 billion barrels of oil have been drawn, mostly from onshore commercial inventories, to offset the shortfall, said Aramco’s Nasser.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
This latest shortfall would involve more cuts in the arts.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
Like culinary dishes, market crashes require specific ingredients: overstretched valuations, high debt levels and cash shortfalls, high volatility, rising capital costs, contagion vectors and poor shock absorbers.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
"The munitions expenditure on OEF has resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls and revealed industrial base bottlenecks for munitions resupply," the report said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
But the independent watchdog said the US spent more than $22 billion on munitions from February through June, leading to "strategic inventory shortfalls".
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
That is “where the gas shortfalls are forecast,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The unemployment caused home foreclosures, leading to shortfalls in property tax receipts, and therefore holes in the school budget.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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