(Corrects headline to 7.2%, not 7.9%)
(Reuters) – Chile’s economy expanded 7.2% in the first quarter of 2022 from a year earlier, central bank data showed on Wednesday, below an expected 7.9% jump, according to a Reuters poll of economists.
Gross domestic product (GDP) fell 0.8% from the previous three months in seasonally adjusted terms. Economists were expecting a 0.4% drop.
(This story corrects headline to 7.2%, not 7.9%)
(Reporting by Gabriel Araujo and Steven Grattan in Sao Paulo, Editing by Louise Heavens and John Stonestreet)
