Mexico's Pemex 3rd-qtr loss widens sharply to $4.44 bln

MEXICO CITY, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Mexico's state-owned oil company Pemex reported a sharply deeper third quarter loss, nearly 50 percent larger compared to the same period last year, the company said on Friday in a filing with the Mexican stock exchange.

Pemex said its quarterly loss totaled 59.65 billion pesos ($4.44 billion) during the July to September period, compared with a year earlier loss of 39.2 billion pesos ($2.98 billion).

The company reported third-quarter revenues of 406.5 billion pesos for the quarter, down 0.7 percent compared with same period last year.

($1 = 13.4235 Mexican pesos at end-Sept.)

(Reporting by David Alire Garcia)

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