Classify the given a piece of financial news into three classes: positive, negative, and neutral. Output must be 'positive', 'negative', or 'neutral'.

Ex Input:
Finnish Bank of +_land 's consolidated net operating profit increased from EUR 4.8 mn in the first quarter of 2005 to EUR 6.4 mn in the first quarter of 2006 .

Ex Output:
positive

Ex Input:
The European Central Bank ECB is anticipated to raise its benchmark interest rate in the second half of 2011 at the earliest .

Ex Output:
neutral

Ex Input:
Operating profit , excluding non-recurring items , totalled EUR 1.0 mn , down from EUR 1.6 mn .

Ex Output:
negative