soft market

基本解釋

Industry insiders says they are already experiencing soft market conditions.
業(yè)內(nèi)人士稱(chēng)他們正処於不景氣的市場(chǎng)。
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(chǎng)疲軟程度加劇，分析家們所預(yù)測(cè)的這1.8個(gè)增長(zhǎng)點(diǎn)將成爲(wèi)自98年以來(lái)的第三低穀。
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(duì)保險(xiǎn)公司來(lái)說(shuō)，新近的保險(xiǎn)金增長(zhǎng)狀況勾起了他們對(duì)於20世紀(jì)90年代末疲軟市場(chǎng)的可怕廻憶，儅時(shí)該産業(yè)已在案的增長(zhǎng)量是97年2.9個(gè)百分點(diǎn)，98年1.8個(gè)百分點(diǎn)。

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