Brazil’s economy expanded 0.2 percent in the first quarter from the previous quarter, the national statistics agency said today in Rio de Janeiro.

Gross domestic product grew 0.8 percent from a year earlier.

Analysts had forecast year-on-year expansion of 1.3 percent and growth of 0.5 percent compared with the fourth quarter, according to the median estimates from economists surveyed by Bloomberg.

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