Categorize the input news's emotional tone into one of three groups.
Options: negative, positive

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) was sliding almost 4% lower at one point on Thursday, in sympathy with the general markets, which saw the S&P 500 falling almost 2%. The tech giant holds a 6.2% weighting in the S&P 500, which often causes the stock and the ETF to trade in tandem.
negative