Saturday, June 7, 2008

São Paulo beats Atletico-MG in the Morumbi

The Sao Paulo goleou the Atletico-MG by 5 to 1, this Saturday, in Morumbi, in departure valid for 5 th round of the Brazilian Championship. With this result, the Tricolor has left a 18 th place to take the seventh position with six points, the same rank as the Atletico-MG. The Gall, however, leads disadvantage the goal balance (-2 against 3) and therefore is a position below.

The Sao Paulo returns to the field on Saturday, when vai to Rio de Janeiro face the Flemish. Two days earlier, on Thursday of lovers, the Athletic receives the Ipatinga, in Mineirăo.

The Atletico had a very bad start and suffered three goals in the first 15 minutes. At eight minutes, Hernanes moved freely through, chutou of mfora the area and surprised the goalkeeper Juninho to the first goal of Sao Paulo.

The team's second goal came four minutes after tricolor. In the bid, the team Paulista exchanged passes in the attack until the chute need Joílson, also from outside the area in the left corner from Juninho.

At 15 minutes, with the defence atleticana online, Andre Dias received launch, invaded the area without marking and played in the output of goalkeeper Juninho to the third goal is-paulino.

At 23 minutes, the technical Gallo replaced the defender Serginho Mineiro Welton by the steering wheel and left-side attacker Thiago Feltri by Beto. Since the changes, the time atleticano equilibrou actions, but could not threaten the goalkeeper Rogerio Ceni.

The Gall came to take in danger of finalizations Coelho and Almir, but suffered the fourth goal on 38 minutes when Hugo took the right and crossing cabeceou without chance for Juninho.

The Gall returned with the same training that ended the first stage and was the first to take risk with the attacker Beto, who received launch of Petkovic and chutou from outside the area for the defence of Rogerio Ceni. For ten minutes, Gallo promoted the entry of Gedeon instead of Almir.

The team atleticana managed to balance the game and take risk in advances from the attacker Beto, who demanded good defense, Rogerio Ceni to 16 minutes, on completion of the entry area. The Sao Paulo said at the intersection of Jorge Wagner that crossed over the large area.

At 25 minutes, Petkovic charged absence, the ball barrier and exploded in Coelho chutou of long distance to reduce the disadvantage alvinegra. In the bid, the ball deviated in the defender and the goalkeeper wrong-are paulino.

The Gall tried to go up and lost good chance with Renan Oliveira, who received in the area and concluded over the goal. At 32, Vinicius dared from outside the area and Rogerio Ceni made great defence in the left corner.

The team gave tricolor return in play of Borges and Juninho on the right and left of the goal to make the defence on the feet of the attacker. At 39 minutes, Hugo invaded the area on the left and chutou cross to the fifth goal of Sao Paulo and give final figures to the game.

Australian Dollar Gains on Higher GDP

The Australian dollar benefited today from the better than expected first quarter GDP growth as the Reserve Bank of Australia may start considering interest rate hikes again.

The gross domestic product grew 0.6 percent in the first quarter of 2008 in Australia, fourth quarter following 0.7 percent increase and surpassing the median experts' estimate value of 0.3 percent gain. In the year-to-year comparison GDP grew 3.6 percent in Q1.

Among the reason for the continued growth of the Australian economy, the market analysts outline the increased personal and government spending, as well as increase in the building sector. RBA Governor Glenn Stevens signaled yesterday that the interest rate may be raised soon if the economy does not slow growth rate.

AUD / USD had its biggest gain since May 16 - it went up from 0.9511 to 0.9580 as of 9:07 GMT with a daily maximum at 0.9598. AUD / JPY also rose today - it went up from 99.98 to 100.43 with a daily high at 100.67.

Hillary will be in front of the electoral battle, says Obama

Senator Barack Obama said was honoured with the support offered by former rival Hillary Clinton and said the senator will be in front of the electoral battle that the Democratic Party brake to reach the presidency of the United States.

Hillary formally announced its support for Obama at an event held this Saturday in Washington.

Obama said that''no one knows better than Senator Clinton that the United States desperately need for change and I know that it will continue at the forefront of this battle this autumn (season to be held in the general election) and the coming years'', he said.

The senator said was''excited and honored to have the support of Senator Clinton''.


Without limits

He added that the rival, with whom he maintained a dispute over 16 months,''broke barriers in the name of my daughters and women in all parties, we now know that there are no limits to their dreams''.

The fact that it was the woman who was closest to seek the presidential statement was also remembered by Hillary in the speech made it this Saturday.

She said''have come close to breaking the glass roof''- the barrier - but added that even though it has not been able to break that mark,''his candidacy caused 18 million of cracks in the roof of glass'', in reference to the number of votes it received, according to their counts.

The figure for Hillary excludes votes recorded in the popular assemblies known as cáucus and includes the votes of Florida and Michigan. Candidates Democrats did not campaign in two states, and in Michigan only Hillary had your name on the ballot paper.

The two states were punished by the central directory Democrat, because they advance the dates of their primary, defeating rules of the party.

Recently, the party decided to restore the representantividade of delegates in Florida and Michigan, but gave them only half the vote in the party's convention in August.

In a statement released here Saturday, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean, said:''We have just count on two of the brightest candidates to compete in primary candidates in recent decades. Now it is time to unite and finish the job''.