Chile's Cencosud posts steep loss in first quarter
MEXICO CITY, May 2 (Reuters) - Chile's Cencosud , one of Latin America's largest retailers, posted a 22.61 billion pesos loss for the January to March period, reversing the 60.37 billion pesos gain seen in the year earlier period, as sales costs and expenses hiked.
Nonetheless, revenues hit 3.94 trillion pesos, a 12.4% jump from the year before. (Reporting by Valentine Hilaire, Aida Pelaez Fernandez and Marion Giralndo; Editing by Steven Grattan)