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

Ex Input:
According to the original merger plan , Scanfil would get a 79 % stake in the combined business .

Ex Output:
neutral

Ex Input:
As a result some 20 persons will no longer be needed .

Ex Output:
negative

Ex Input:
Finnair said that the cancellation of flights would cause daily losses of x20ac 2.5 million US$ 3 million .

Ex Output:
negative