Article: Rising market tide fails to lift some Mass. firms

It's been hard to lose during the spectacular stock market boom of 2009. Hard, but not impossible.

The stock market hit bottom on March 9 and has been climbing almost nonstop since. The Standard & Poor's 500 index is up a whopping 60.5 percent since that low. In Massachusetts, the shares of 212 public companies have gained ground.

"The market rally has encompassed virtually the entire university of equities," says Tom Manning, chief investment officer at Silver Bridge Advisors in Boston. "The old saying about a rising tide lifting all boats certainly proved to be the case."

Well, almost all boats. A small number of local stocks actually lost ground while the broader market was soaring. What ...

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