1.   While that supply crunch has eased, prices are still benefiting to some extent, traders say.

2.   A supply crunch in the gold lending market last week pushed short-term gold lease rates to an all-time high Wednesday.

3.   Bullion prices surged earlier this week when a supply crunch in the gold lending market pushed short-term gold lease rates to an all-time high.

4.   Kennedy said a national inventory of heating oil, built up during the summer months, would avert supply crunches that often hit New England residents in the fall.

5.   Now, with temperatures warming, the supply crunch is easing, traders said.

6.   Now, with the temperatures warming, the supply crunch is easing, traders said.

7.   Still, if more companies slow production, there could be a supply crunch, analysts said.

8.   The downside is that a refinery outage can cause a supply crunch.

9.   The fresh grain, though, is easing a supply crunch in parts of the Midwest.

10.   The grain supply crunch is likely to ease in the coming year as world demand for U.S. corn and wheat drops.