soft market

基本解释

Industry insiders says they are already experiencing soft market conditions.
业内人士称他们正处于不景气的市场。
The 1.8 percent increase in premium growth that analysts forecast for 2007 would be the third slowest rate of growth for P/C insurers since 1998, during the depths of the last soft market.
随着最终市场疲软程度加剧，分析家们所预测的这1.8个增长点将成为自98年以来的第三低谷。
For insurers, the current premium growth pattern is eerily reminiscent of the soft market of the late 1990s, when the industry recorded growth of 2.9 percent in 1997 and 1.8 percent in 1998.
对保险公司来说，新近的保险金增长状况勾起了他们对于20世纪90年代末疲软市场的可怕回忆，当时该产业已在案的增长量是97年2.9个百分点，98年1.8个百分点。

"In a soft market tenants are going to go to the highest-quality space, " says Jeffrey.
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That trend, while understandable as the company wrestles with a still-soft market and suddenly rising input costs, could put a damper on Sysco shares in the future.
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