** Shares of Australia's Freelancer Ltd FLN.AX fall as
much as 2.4% to A$0.205
** Freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace posts Q1 gross
merchandise value of A$31.5 mln ($20.46 mln), down 2.2% from the
same quarter last year
** Posts Q1 FY24 net cash receipts of A$13.2 mln, down 3.6%
VS Q1 FY23
** Co continues to optimise and extract cost efficiencies
across all functions of business - Freelancer
** Stock up 13.5% this year, as of last close
($1 = 1.5399 Australian dollars)
(Reporting by Rishav Chatterjee in Bengaluru)
((Rishav.Chatterjee@thomsonreuters.com;))