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

Example input: According to Gran , the company has no plans to move all production to Russia , although that is where the company is growing .
Example output: neutral
Example explanation: 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.
Q: The company 's profit before taxes fell to EUR 21.1 mn in the third quarter of 2008 , compared to EUR 35.8 mn in the corresponding period in 2007 .
A:
negative