**FILE**This combo picture shows, top, a pedestrian walking past a board showing a plunge in Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng index, which shed 1.9 percent as investors sold off property stocks in expectations of poor earnings due to the SARS outbreak on April 9, 2003. Below, a man walks past the screen showing the Hang Seng Index outside a bank in Hong Kong on June 15, 2007. (AP Photo/Anat Givon, Kin Cheung)