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

Ex Input:
UPM-Kymmene Corp. , the world 's largest maker of magazine paper , on Tuesday reported a 19-percent profit drop as lower paper prices , higher costs and a strong euro hurt revenue .

Ex Output:
negative

Ex Input:
Shares in Royal and Sun Alliance continued to slide back from a 12-month high of 172p last month , after a potential suitor ruled itself out of a takeover bid .

Ex Output:
negative

Ex Input:
comparable operating profit totaled EUR 854mn , up from EUR 730mn in 2004 .

Ex Output:
positive