10:18 AM EST - Jean Coutu Group Inc. : says its second-quarter earnings soared to US$72.5 million from a year-earlier US$30.8 million on higher sales and a positive adjustment related to its $2.55-billion sale of U.S. stores to Rite Aid. For the quarter ended Nov. 25, earnings amounted to 28 cents a share, compared with 12 cents per share a year ago. Jean Coutu Group Inc.
shares T.PJC.A are trading up 44 cents at $14.25.
