These references were replaced by references to a rival report, financed in part by the American Petroleum Institute.
The British Bankers Associationn countered with a rival report suggesting demand for finance remained low.
The leap surprised investors after Next, Marks & Spencer's rival, reported falling sales a week ago, blaming unseasonally warm weather.
Earlier this month, Viacom, a giant rival, reported a fourth-quarter profit of $652m, rather better than its loss of $43m a year ago.
But a less sunny outlook is suggested by a rival report from the Shepton Mallet School of Advanced Hermeneutics, of which I've had a sneak preview.
On Monday, Ford continued to chip away at its rival, reporting a robust 14 percent gain in American sales in May, to 246,000, about 6,000 behind G.M., which reported a tepid 3 percent gain.
BHP, which is seeking to buy Rio Tinto, a major rival, reported net income of $15.4 billion for the year ending June 30, helped by the jump in commodity prices, higher production and an ability to pass on higher costs.
Why endanger your bonus and good results?" UBS, Credit Suisse's rival, reported on Tuesday that its investment banking unit had earned a pretax profit of 297 million francs for the quarter.
The Advertising column on Friday, about BMW's new marketing campaign in the United States, misstated, in some editions, the day last week that Mercedes-Benz USA, a rival, reported its 2011 sales.
They commissioned a rival report that estimated the cost of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 47% by 2030 at no more than 1%-2 1%-2%DP if the climate poficy was financed properly.
