This is the value of an exchange-rate peg in an economy such as Hong Kong's: adjustment to external shocks takes place through changes to domestic prices, rather than through exchange-rate levels.
More profound than the foreign threat, according to Sheng Hong, a reformist economist at the Unirule Institute at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, would be the opening of Chinese banking to domestic competition, through interest-rate liberalisation.
One of its creators, Maria Mandel, the executive director of digital innovation at OgilvyOne, points to a Mobile Marketing statistic that mobile banner ads have a higher click-through rate than Internet banner ads--2% vs. 0.15%.
Better targeting through audio and image recognition could also improve the click-through rate of videos, or how often an ad is clicked for every time it appears.
Paid search efforts delivered impressive results as well, with an 89 percent increase in goal conversion rate and 44 percent increase in overall click-through rate.
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Short-term thinking tells us that Fed is being "stimulative" through its low-rate policies, but price controls are just that, and it is the Fed's efforts to enforce non-market rates of interest that are presently making credit hard to find.
Banner ads, back when they premiered in 2000, boasted a click-through rate of nine percent.
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E-mail marketing, by comparison, has an 11% click-through rate and a 4% average conversion rate.
Indeed, the click-through rate on Facebook ads in the U.S. almost doubled from the second quarter.
Revenue per search equals the click-through rate (CTR) multiplied by the cost per click (CPC).
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Marc says he is seeing14% higher ROI, 3.3 click-through rate (CTR), and 46% lower costs overall.
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First, it seemed to be excellent anecdotal confirmation that Twitter links really do have a terrible click-through rate.
The study found that the average Facebook metrics are a 1% click-through rate and a 2% conversion rate.
Those posts have a click-through rate of 1% to 3%, according to Twitter many times higher than most forms of online advertising.
Fewer than 1% of all ads get a follow-up "click" for more information, and this "click- through" rate has fallen sharply this year.
Not only will Facebook need to boost its click-through rate and get users directly to advertisers, it will have to add value while doing so.
The advertiser saw a click-through rate on the linking banner ad of 1.3%, which it says, is a higher rate than its standard banner ad.
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For a sizable majority of people, these assumptions and recommendations will be accurate and should result in a better click-through rate and ultimately more revenue.
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Research done by mobile marketing and advertising service provider Velti, shows that the click-through rate (CTR) on tablets is double that on smartphones (see graphic below).
Following the peculiarities of the Duckworth-Lewis method that resulted in defeat against West Indies on Monday, England were the recipients of good fortune as the abandonment took them through on run-rate.
The way to correct these imbalances is not through massive exchange-rate movements of the sort that might be under way, but by policy changes in both Japan and the United States.
So, your already low click-through rate plummets even further.
And our click-through rate went up twice.
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Shale gas benefited from decades of public investments in innovation and clean energy is no different, but one of the starkest comparisons between the two is that shale gas innovation received dedicated funding through a rate-payer surcharge.
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Managements at NLY and ANH have been battle-tested through several rate and credit cycles, but newer entrants have only had to endure the Credit Crisis of 2008-09 and not a prolonged Fed rate hiking cycle.
Is this -- and projections from the White House itself keep it at that rate through 2012 -- is this the new normal?
But more importantly, it is a magic that works beautifully, by accident, in a way Keynes did not forsee, when it operates through policies of tax-rate reduction.
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That tweet drove a higher-click through rate than the norm.
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In the spring he paid between 70 cents and 80 cents per dollar of face value for a senior tranche of the WaMu Mortgage Pass-Through 2005-AR2, which carries a coupon rate of Libor plus 31 basis points, or 3.52% in September.
As of this week, Congress seems likely to extend the current 15% capital-gains rate through 2012.
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