Two years after he disappeared from his Long Island home, Disaster the cat was found this week in the heart of Manhattan by a Times Square haunted house promoter dressed up as a zombie.

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Bear markets brought on by financial catastrophe in the form of fraud, leverage and greed are the financial markets version of a haunted house.

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But the latest boom in real-estate prices has nearly wiped away Hong Kong's haunted-house discount.

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The house, which was mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086, has appeared on the television programme Most Haunted and the video website YouTube.

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