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I put my first HK$50,000 into HSBC Holdings shares and thousands more afterwards.

I have given my three-year-old one lot of HSBC shares, plus a teddy bear, on each of her birthdays. Like many of my peers, and many of you, I was a die-hard HSBC supporter.

I had my first outing at the "Lion Bank". A photo of me as a girl and Stein the Lion still sits in my drawer.

Goldman Sachs has downgraded the Hong Kong banking sector amid the atypical pneumonia crisis, triggering a sell-off among banking shares.

......Mr Ramos said in a report. "While dividend yields remain attractive, we see less earnings resilience in 2003 as pressures mount."......

.....Standard & Poor's also issued a report yesterday warning: "Sars is......

Banking shares came under pressure after the reports, with Bank of China (HK) falling 1.86 per cent to HK$7.90 after Goldman downgraded the stock to "in-line" from "outperform".