NEW YORK -- Second-ranked Chinese e-retailing platform JD.com offered a rare note of optimism Monday amid widespread coronavirus gloom, forecasting double-digit revenue growth for the current quarter.
The Nasdaq-listed company expects net revenue to increase "at least 10%" on the year for the January-March period -- a sharp contrast to larger rival Alibaba Group Holding, which warned last month that first-quarter revenue in its core commerce business would likely drop.
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