TASK DEFINITION: Given a document and an entity the task is to select the author's sentiment towards the entity. Sentiments can be Positive, Neutral and Negative. Select Positive if the article expresses a positive view towards the given entity or praises its quality or skills. Select Neutral if the document expresses no clear view towards the entity or has equal amounts of positive and negative statements or expressing some fact/quote by someone else. Select Negative if the article expresses a negative view towards like harsh remarks, criticizing entities action/decision etc. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Frank Newman ? "But neither assumption is correct " said Frank Newman  a former deputy secretary of the US Treasury and now chairman and chief executive of Shenzhen Development Bank  a Chinese commercial bank.
 Making Chinese products more expensive in the United States will do nothing to shift production to US factories  he said in a commentary in the magazine Foreign Policy. It may instead nudge production to other developing countries.
 In addition  Newman said  a large proportion of goods imported from China are not end-state products  but components ready for assembly.
 A US auto manufacturer that uses Chinese car seats  for instance  pays more for the seats under a strengthened yuan and then either cuts into its profits or charges higher prices on the finished vehicle  he explained.
 That final step  he said  added just four dollars of value to the phone  whose components come from other countries.
 He said a revaluation of the yuan not only would make Chinese exports relatively more expensive but also would decrease foreign demand for Chinese-made goods  negatively impacting local production and creating "a feedback loop through to domestic employment and wages.
 "In the extreme  this threatens social stability  and China is certainly not the poster child for social stability  he warned.
 "Given the foreign interests and investments in China  it is not entirely clear to me that a yuan revaluation that catapults China into recession would not result in a global contagion effect " he said.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Jamie Anderson ? The athletes did not fly through the air with the greatest of ease during the wind-whipped womenâs slopestyle at the Winter Olympics on Monday. But  reigning Olympic champion Jamie Anderson  tamed the conditions enough to win the gold medal in Pyeongchang  South Korea â defending the gold  she  won four years ago in the same event.
 She  became the first female snowboarder to win multiple golds and notched the second gold for the United States at this yearâs games.
Mother Nature couldn't stop a force of nature.  Jamie Anderson  won gold for Team USA in women's slopestyle. #BestOfUS #WinterOlympics [Link] pic.twitter.com/zUSS5G2wpf â NBC Olympics (@NBCOlympics) February 12  2018
âIâm feeling so happy â  Anderson  said  per the Olympicsâ news service. âIâve gone through so much this last year just preparing for the Games and defending the gold is definitely not an easy position to be in. â
Sergei Bobylev via Getty Images Jamie Anderson  celebrates  her  victory Monday.
But the conditions remained dangerous. After a 75-minute delay   Anderson  and the rest of the field went to work. Much of the field struggled mightily against the elements  but  Anderson  managed to record an 83 on  her  first run to take the lead  and that score held up.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Hammond ? MANCHESTER  England (Reuters) - British finance minister Philip Hammond defended capitalism as the only route to prosperity on Monday  in an attempt to counter the opposition Labour Partyâs increasingly popular vision for a more centrally-controlled economy.
In a speech to the ruling Conservative Party that contained only two new policy announcements   Hammond  also said that the governmentâs immediate task was to deal with the uncertainty for citizens and businesses resulting from Brexit.
 Hammond   who was sidelined by May during the election campaign  said last weekâs Labour Party conference showed it wanted to impose on Britain  the worldâs fifth largest economy  the âsocialist fantasyâ seen in Cuba  Venezuela or Zimbabwe.
âWe saw Labour in the raw  exposed for what it has sadly become: a party taken hostage by a clique of hard-left extremist infiltrators  people who despise Britainâs values and talk down our country â  Hammond  told Conservative Party activists.
Seeking to put the economy center-stage in the Conservativesâ pitch to voters   Hammond  said Britain could only hope to experience rising living standards âby harnessing the power of the market economyâ.
With opinion polls showing Labour gaining support   Hammond  aims to convince voters that Corbyn would make them poorer.
Labourâs leaders   he  said  âopenly proclaim their ambition to demolish our successful modern market economy and replace it with a back-to-the-future socialist fantasy with hundreds of billions of extra debt for the next generation to pay.â
âOur economy is not broken: It is fundamentally strong â  Hammond  said  while also accepting that a lack of progress in talks on Britainâs divorce settlement with the European Union and uncertainty over future ties were weighing on businesses.
âThe process of negotiating our exit from the EU has created uncertainty so investment has slowed as businesses wait for clarity â  Hammond  said.
 Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond  speaks at the Conservative Party's conference in Manchester  Britain October 2  2017. REUTERS/PHIL NOBLE
Business groups welcomed Hammondâs defense of free markets  but said the government needed to do much more.
 Hammond  pledged 400 million pounds ($535 million) of additional road and rail spending and 10 billion pounds of funding to help young Britons get on the property ladder.
âWe must never deny or dismiss the underlying concerns that the election articulated: we must listen to them and we must respond â  Hammond  said  adding that the government should offer âpragmatic solutionsâ to improve ordinary peopleâs lives.
But with Brexit on the horizon  a slowing economy and the Bank of England hinting that interest rates could rise  May and  Hammond  have limited room for fiscal maneuver.
Labour said Hammondâs speech on Monday was disappointing.

SOLUTION:
Positive