SAUSALITO, Calif., March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- TrimTabs Investment Research estimates that the U.S.

SAUSALITO, Calif., March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. economy is on the road to recovery, according to the latest real-time economic data compiled by TrimTabs Investment Research. "This rebound seems to be the real deal," said Charles Biderman, CEO of TrimTabs.

SAUSALITO, Calif., Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- TrimTabs Investment Research estimates that the U.S. economy lost 284,000 jobs in October, a modest improvement over the 358,000 jobs shed in September.

By Laura Smitherman, The Baltimore Sun Mar. 5--Companies hunkered down after the corporate scandals, terrorist attacks and Internet bubble pop at the turn of the century and decided to focus on old-fashioned profitability.

(Please read in second paragraph "$312 billion" instead of "$312 million.") NEW YORK (Reuters) - Publicly traded companies in the United States repurchased a record $456 billion of their shares in 2005, up 46 percent over the prior year, according to data from TrimTabs Investment released on Wednesday.