TASK DEFINITION: Classify the given a piece of financial news into three classes: positive, negative, and neutral. Output must be 'positive', 'negative', or 'neutral'.
PROBLEM: 30 November 2009 - Finnish office furniture maker Martela Oyj HEL : MARAS said today that it will make redundant three people and other nine will be laid off permanently from the company 's office staff and factory workers .

SOLUTION: negative

PROBLEM: - The Group -" s result before taxes was EUR -1.9 ( -3.0 ) million .

SOLUTION: negative

PROBLEM: The shares shall be repurchased through public trading , for which reason the shares are repurchased otherwise than in proportion to the holdings of the shareholders .

SOLUTION:
neutral