** U.S.-listed shares of Chinese digital marketing platform
360 DigiTech Inc QFIN.O down 5.4% at $13.92 premarket
** After market close on Thursday, co reported 37% drop in
Q2 net profit to 979.8 mln yuan ($143.9 mln), as expenses
skyrocketed urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nGNX47hYym
** Although we started to see modest recovery in consumer
credit after lockdown measures were lifted in certain regions of
China, we plan to continue to take a prudent approach to manage
our business growth and risks - CFO Alex Xu
** YTD, stock is down 36%
($1 = 6.81 Chinese yuan renminbi)
(Reporting by Niket Nishant in Bengaluru)
((Niket.Nishant@thomsonreuters.com;))