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

Q: The company expects its net sales in the first half of 2008 to reach the previous year 's level .

A: positive
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Q: Paper stocks were among the biggest fallers , with Stora Enso down 2.30 pct to 14.01 eur , M-real down 2.86 pct to 5.09 eur and UPM-Kymmene 1.14 pct lower at 19.10 eur .

A: negative
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Q: Metso estimates the need for personnel reductions to amount to 25 people .

A:
negative
****