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

Example Input: - The Group 's sales during the period were EUR 37.5 million ( EUR 48.2 million , 1-9/2008 ) and result before taxes was a loss of EUR -3.5 ( +1.2 ) million .
Example Output: negative

Example Input: According to CEO Matti Perkonoja of the parent company HKScan , the company 's performance in the first quarter of 2010 has remained clearly below the level of the corresponding period in 2009 .
Example Output: negative

Example Input: However , the net sales declined to EUR 803.6 million from EUR 1.2 billion .
Example Output:
negative