soft market

基本解釋

Industry insiders says they are already experiencing soft market conditions.
業(yè)內人士稱他們正處于不景氣的市場。
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.
隨著最終市場疲軟程度加劇，分析家們所預測的這1.8個增長點將成為自98年以來的第三低谷。
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.
對保險公司來說，新近的保險金增長狀況勾起了他們對于20世紀90年代末疲軟市場的可怕回憶，當時該產業(yè)已在案的增長量是97年2.9個百分點，98年1.8個百分點。

"In a soft market tenants are going to go to the highest-quality space, " says Jeffrey.
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Fortunately, one soft market can't derail a well-diversified REIT, notes PaineWebber's Boston.
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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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