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

Example Input: Finnish Food Workers ' Union SEL plans to hasten its collective bargaining with a two-day strike that would begin on 7 April 2010 , in Finland .
Example Output: negative

Example Input: '' Small well targeted acquisitions have played an important role in executing Satama 's strategy in the past couple of years .
Example Output: neutral

Example Input: Net sales dropped by 6 % year-on-year to EUR 11.9 million .
Example Output:
negative