" Our survey shows that as opposed to 8% in 2009, 19% of Chinese consumers purchasing chocolate in 2011 chose a brand based on emotional considerations such as it "made me feel good.

我们的调研指出，在购买巧克力时，根据“它让我感觉很好”等情感因素而选择某一个品牌的中国消费者，2009年只占8%， 2011年升至19%。

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The risk of the rising yen, notes Frederic Neumann, HSBC's senior Asia economist, is that any benefit in consumers' purchasing power is far outweighed by the negative effects on the export economy.

汇丰的高级亚洲经济学家范力民(Frederic Neumann)说，日圆不断升值的危险之处在于，它增加的消费者购买力远不足以抵消它给出口造成的负面影响。

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Consumers' purchasing power has been lifted by very low mortgage interest payments.

超低的抵押贷款利率提升了消费者购买力。

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Coming off a 2011 holiday season that witnessed consumers purchasing tablets at a torrid pace, the recent exponential growth in sales promises to spur the consumption of games, which numerous studies indicate are the number one activity on tablet devices.

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But for consumers, purchasing virtual goods for Kabam games through Pokki apps will work just as it does when people play games directly on Kabam.com.

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Online ad company DoubleClick, Abacus' former owner, scrapped plans to cross-reference data about consumers' purchasing behavior with their online habits in 2000, when privacy advocates howled.

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