soft market

In 1982, a major local mining firm shuttered operations over high costs and a soft market for uranium.

Any relaxation of cuts would risk sinking prices in what looks like a soft market, analysts say.

About $1.4 billion of those losses were insured, but years of soft market conditions and underpriced risk left insurers swamped and reinsurers on the hook.

Dallas’s willingness to take back long-term guaranteed money on Porzingis reflects the soft market for his services, which is influenced by the $69 million owed to him over the next two seasons.

In a buyer’s market — and a soft market at the positions of greatest need for the Nats — the team has the resources.