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

[EX Q]: Salcomp Oyj , the Finnish maker of mobile phone chargers , Monday posted a EUR1 .49 million loss in the second quarter compared with a 1.70 million profit in the same period the previous year .
[EX A]: negative

[EX Q]: In December alone , the members of the Lithuanian Brewers ' Association sold a total of 20.3 million liters of beer , an increase of 1.9 percent from the sales of 19.92 million liters in December 2004 .
[EX A]: positive

[EX Q]: ALEXANDRIA , Va. , March 28 -- Pertti Salmi and Hanna Vuolteenaho , both of Oulu , Finland , and Sami Viitasaari of Ii , Finland , have developed an ornamental design for a handset , the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced .
[EX A]:
neutral