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

Ex Input:
Of these shares 14,747,084 are held by the Company and the number of outstanding shares and voting rights attached to the shares amounts thus to 161,256,847 .

Ex Output:
neutral

Ex Input:
'' Residentialconstruction in particular has picked up in several markets .

Ex Output:
positive

Ex Input:
'' We continued actively to focus R&D and to position our offering away from point solutions towards dynamic end-to-end solutions , '' Ervio stated .

Ex Output:
positive