Teacher: Classify the given a piece of financial news into three classes: positive, negative, and neutral. Output must be 'positive', 'negative', or 'neutral'.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
According to Gran , the company has no plans to move all production to Russia , although that is where the company is growing .
Solution: neutral
Reason: Although the author uses negative words like 'no' in the news, there is no evidence of the news being positive or negative for any stakeholder. Hence, the output should be neutral and the classification is correct.

Now, solve this instance: However , the proportion of the paid standing orders grew in 2009 .
Student:
positive