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How to use the word overdone in a Sentence?

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The Fed's why soft landings are so difficult to pull off, by the time you know you've overdone it, the next thing you know, you're already in a recession.

Bill Dudley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When prices go up in a way that gets people concerned the market is overdone and you have rising volatility and rising prices, that's typically unsustainable and you do get a correction.

Jim Bianco

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The fact we are having rotations is healthy because that just means we are not glued to what has been working in 2019, as consumer discretionary goes through that mini-rotation, it probably comes out of it and next week is probably that catalyst to at least see what has been overdone on the downside here.

Art Hogan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This [ surge ] is crazy, but it's already overdone. I don't think such gains can last long. It's way too speculative.

Ronald Wan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In that bill, there were longer sentences. And most of these people are in prison under state law, but the federal law set a trend, and that was overdone. We were wrong about that. That percentage of it, we were wrong about.

Bill Clinton

Found on CNN
4 years ago

China will see some challenges but we do think the extreme level of selling is probably overdone.

Byles Williams

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's always the case a day after a big rally or sell-off for people to feel it was overdone.

Phil Flynn

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The yen has clearly shocked a lot of people with its aggressive strength this past week, but whether or not the negative sentiment is overdone won't be clear until we see the U.S. non-farm payrolls figures.

Stefan Worrall

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I think that the velocity of the market moving up seems to be overdone at the moment, the fundamentals are improving, but at a slow and steady pace. There are still headwinds that will keep prices choppy.

Michael Tran

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

In a lot of respects I think yesterday's selling of Mitsubishi was a bit overdone, from what we know so far it's all very domestic, with no U.S. impact and no impact in Europe, and I think people are a bit hasty to cast this in the same light as the Volkswagen scandal. But of course the facts aren't all in yet, so it's hard to know for sure.

Gavin Parry

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It certainly looks like the bulls had shot themselves in the foot ahead of the rally, as we were in risk-off mood until Wednesday when oil and commodities were off-favor, that said, the price rally since looks kind of overdone too, as we still have record inventories in crude oil, regardless what near-term bullish factors show.

John Kilduff

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think the attention to the impact on global corn is overdone, and I think the attention to the implications of what it will mean to Chinese soybean production is under appreciated.

Ken Morrison

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

People are still very much nervous. You are now starting to get a bit of a debate about whether things have gotten overdone.

Scott Brown

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Extreme volatility in the market seems to be overdone, but none of these problems has been resolved.

Hikaru Sato

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We do not have a structurally weak banking sector at the moment, the current market moves look overdone and we are, for the first time, drawn to some of the harder hit areas.

Paras Anand

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It seems like the rally ... was quite overdone.

Matthias Rusinski

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Yesterday they had such a big bounce, it was probably slightly overdone.

Patrick Blais

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The move with WTI trading above Brent is not fundamentally justified. It is overdone and you are likely to see some correction in that when markets return to some kind of normality in terms of volumes.

Virendra Chauhan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Yesterday's rally was a bit overdone and investors are taking profit as they prepare for the holiday. Lower oil prices this morning and weaker U.S. markets gave the pretext to sell, looking forward, I expect volatility to persist in the coming sessions, but the market could gain some strength as we move into 2016.

Stephan Rieke

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Yesterday's rally was a bit overdone and investors are taking profit as they prepare for the holiday. Lower oil prices this morning and weaker U.S. markets gave the pretext to sell, looking forward, I expect volatility to persist in the coming sessions but the market could gain some strength as we move into 2016.

Stephan Rieke

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Market participants are of the view (after strong U.S. jobs data on Friday) that the worries about the global economy are overdone but then this weekend we saw some disappointment in the China exports.

Emile Cardon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Market participants are of the view (after strong U.S. jobs data on Friday) that the worries about the global economy are overdone but then this weekend we saw some disappointment in the China exports, emerging markets are in the doldrums again and that is having a negative impact on sentiment.

Emile Cardon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I absolutely think it's overdone. I'm always surprised by how one day, a quarter of the market cares so much about GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) earnings and whether there's a miss or not, the operations performed extremely well, we grew production, our cash all-in-sustaining costs were down, we generated $243 million of free cash flow, paid down debt, put money in the bank. All the things that you're supposed to do.

Goldcorp Chief Executive Chuck Jeannes

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The DAX was punished by the scandal at Volkswagen, and it seemed overly sold during the global sell-off in the summer. But those moves were overdone.

Lorne Baring

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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