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Former hedge fund manager at Bear Stearns Asset Management Mark Kurland was sentenced last Friday to 27 months in prison in connection to an insider-trading scheme at hedge fund Galleon Group.
Gold prices reached an all-time high days after Bear Stearns collapsed, and it has steadily declined since.
Profit at JPMorgan Chase, one of the few survivors of the brutal financial crisis, were down by 84 percent, to $14.7 billion.
