BUZZ-JD Sports: Trading at life high after record 2016 profit
** British sports fashion retailer JD Sports shares trading at life high as co reports 55 pct rise in FY headline pretax profit; stock up c.4 pct
** Co reports headline profit before tax and exceptional items of 244.8 mln stg; co top gainer on FTSE midcap index
** Close to a third of 30-day average volumes traded by 0815 GMT
** Up to Monday's close, stock had risen 27.9 pct YTD vs a 2 pct fall in the FTSE 350 Retail index (RM (LSE: RM.L - news) :sanjeeban.sarkar.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)