He said the majority of the upside was driven by the unexpected surge in iPhone sales.
Analysts said the unexpected surge suggested stronger growth in second-quarter gross domestic product.
Some irregularity in the current, some unexpected surge, was slaughtering the bulbs.
Already, manufacturers like G.M. are reporting an unexpected surge in the number of private car buyers.
One factor, analysts say, was the unexpected surge in corporate earnings throughout the year, helped largely by cost-cutting.
True, part of California's problem is an unexpected surge in electricity demand, the byproduct of a booming economy.
The Bush administration could not prove that an unexpected surge of imports had hurt the American steel industry.
It has benefited from a strong and unexpected surge in opinion polls here in the last two weeks.
Prices were virtually flat - and refiners lost money - because of an unexpected surge in heating oil exports from Europe.
More significant, perhaps, has been an unexpected surge of interest among the local community during recent weeks.
But one subsector of the information technology industry, which VentureWire calls communications and networking, enjoyed an unexpected surge.
