Whether they stick to that plan in their revisedreport, and whether the hoped-for progressivity could be retained in actuality, remains to be seen, however.
Among the displeased, supposedly, was Margaret Beckett, president of the Board of Trade: there were mutterings that unless the revisedreport proposed tougher disciplines on directors, the government might impose some rules of its own.
U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, revised productivity and costs, the ISM manufacturing report, construction spending and domestic auto industry sales.