oversupply
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Saxo Markets said AI valuations assume a relentless pace of model development, warning that memory chips could face oversupply risks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
“Traditionally memory shortages don’t last forever, and memory companies want to get the benefits while they can before the cycle swings to oversupply again,” Gold said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
Vietnam's government warned in early August of the "risks of oversupply and loss of quality control as the planted area is increasing rapidly".
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Eventually, that created an oversupply of capacity, said Joel Sutherland, a professor of supply-chain management at the University of San Diego’s Knauss School of Business.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
We have already alluded to the great oversupply of teachers of schools.
From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Arthur H. Smith
The Calgary-based company in 2009 spun off Cenovus Energy Inc. to focus on natural gas as prices for the resource began falling because of oversupplies generated by an onshore drilling boom in North America.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 10, 2011
However, farmers should stop worrying so much about price-deflating oversupplies of beef and other meats.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some analysts were forecasting $50 oil toward the end of 2025 because of an oversupplied market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
They are strategically underweight cyclicals, such as AI-beneficiary technology hardware companies that they think will eventually face the risk of an oversupplied market.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
At the same time, the prices of Air Jordan 1s and Air Force 1s on the platform have recovered, a sign the market is no longer oversupplied.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
“The market still looks oversold, not oversupplied, and the ‘well-supplied’ signal out of Asia is a drawdown, not necessarily an influx of Hormuz barrels,” said Kyle Bertamini, an analyst with Enverus Intelligence Research.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
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 E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
Beyond oversupplying wholesale channels, management stumbled by attempting to pivot the traditionally male-centric line toward female consumers, an effort executives eventually walked back, according to Andreeva.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
But memory providers have been reluctant to add more capacity out of fear of oversupplying a typically cyclical market.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 27, 2026
But Steur’s lawyers said that the company began to intentionally oversaturate the market, oversupplying law enforcement.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2022
A more intense construction blitz also risks oversupplying the market.
From Reuters ● May 1, 2022
If the goal of graduate programs is to create highly trained scientists, then these programs are oversupplying the workforce by the hundreds of thousands.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2022
