Dell Computer's net income surged 76.6 percent, sending its shares up $2.125.

Total revenue rose a healthy 49% year on year to $822m while net income surged 63% to $62m.

So did higher tax rates on the rich, enacted just before their incomes surged ahead of other Americans' in the booming economy of the 1990's.

Americans' incomes surged 1.4 percent in October, and consumer spending rose.

The average income of African-American families surged 20 percent from 1998 to 2000.

Viewed so broadly, personal income surged in June, the latest month for which numbers are available.

Their incomes can surge and fall back as a result of business successes and stock market losses.

Last year, its net income surged to $36.1 billion, the highest for any American corporation and a 43 percent jump from the previous year.

Their incomes surged and that more than offset the lower rates.

Net income surged nearly 80 percent, to £167.1 million ($241.7 million ).