soft market

soft market definition - finance
A market in which there is little demand and an excess of supply, creating downward pressure on prices. In a financial market, a soft market consists of low volumes and wide differences between the selling price and the purchase price (called the bid-ask spread). Also called a buyerÂ’s market.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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