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July 9 (NBD) -- Suning.com Co., Ltd. (002024.SZ) revised up its forecast for the net profit contributable to shareholders of the listed company for the first half of 2018 to 5.962-6.062 billion yuan (898.0-913.0 million U.S. dollars) from previous 361.2-461.2 million yuan (54.4-69.5 million U.S. dollars), the Chinese e-commerce company announced Saturday.

The previous forecast made in April didn't include the money made from selling shares of Alibaba in May. Suning.com is expected to make a net profit of approximately 5.6 billion yuan (843.5 million U.S. dollars) from the deal, according to the announcement.  

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