10:33 AM EST - Jean Coutu Group : reported a higher third-quarter profit on Tuesday, as the pharmacy chain benefited from a reversed $108 million impairment loss on its US assets. Coutu, which agreed last year to sell its U.S. Brooks and Eckerd chains to Rite Aid Corp. for about $2.6 billion in cash and shares, earned $184 million, or 70 cents a share, up from a profit of $31.6 million, or 12 cents a share, in the same period a year earlier. Jean Coutu Group
shares T.PJC.A are trading up 6 cents at $15.56.
