surplus
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There was less interest in Legal & General, which might only cover its dividend cost with net surplus generation by 2027.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
The surplus of sellers, nearly 600,000, is the largest in Redfin’s records going back to 2013.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
September exports reached a record $120.9 billion and the trade surplus hit $49.9 billion, making the year-to-date balance now $252 billion.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
For British kitesurfer Lily Young, who is targeting a place at the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028, the pressure to find a competitive edge can itself create surplus.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
The Angkar says our new society will produce many thousand kilograms of a rice surplus within two years.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
It’s worth noting that with the boom in commodity prices in 2026 Brazil is posting massive trade surpluses every month.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Kim expects chip exports to jump 175% this year and 41% next year, with long-term agreements by semiconductor companies likely to help the country sustain strong exports and current-account surpluses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
But soaring surpluses with several key trading partners has also become a political issue, as officials overseas argue that waves of Chinese imports are crowding out local competition.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
The country has now racked up surpluses four straight months, following May’s downwardly revised C$3.7 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Huge surpluses of wheat, corn, milk, pork, and beef produced in the Midwest had caused the price of farm commodities to crash.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
The city has been prioritizing the use of surplused land for “low-income housing” for several years.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2023
Next he built a telecom infrastructure company — MK Global — that ”secured the rights to a $1 billion in equipment surplused in the wake of the dot-com crash.”
From Forbes ● Sep. 19, 2011
He couldn't look like that surplused boy, though.
From Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley by Belle Kanaris Maniates
Consequently the neighborhood was notified that a sacred concert by a "surplused choir" composed of members of the Jenkins household, assisted by a few of their schoolmates, would be given a week from Wednesday night.
From Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley by Belle Kanaris Maniates
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