SAO PAULO, April 25 (Reuters) - Brazil's retail sales
dropped 0.1% in February compared with the previous month,
although advancing 1.0% from the same month a year earlier,
government statistics agency IBGE said on Tuesday.
A Reuters poll of economists showed that expectations were
for a drop of 0.2% on a monthly comparison and a 0.9% rise
year-on-year.
(Reporting by Gabriel Araujo and Camila Moreira, Editing by
Louise Heavens)
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