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

Ex Input:
The contract was signed in August with Papua New Guinea-based Lihir Gold Ltd ASX : LGL .

Ex Output:
positive

Ex Input:
To choose BasWare as the tools for our Financial Service seemed like a natural continuation of our cooperation '' , says Tommi Leskinen , Financial Applications Manager , Neste Oil Corporation .

Ex Output:
neutral

Ex Input:
Diluted earnings per share ( EPS ) stood at EUR 0.25 versus EUR 0.42 .

Ex Output:
negative