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Implement Gemini batch sentiment scoring; replace FinBERT/transformers

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- Migrate news_engine to google-genai SDK with gemini-2.5-flash-lite
- Batch all headlines into one API call per scan (30 calls -> 1)
- In-memory cache keyed by headline hash; fallback to keyword scoring
- Update requirements.txt: add google-genai, python-dotenv; remove transformers
- Add .gitignore; update CLAUDE.md with Gemini live section

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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## Suggested improvements (not yet implemented)
## News sentiment — Google Gemini (live)
### Replace keyword sentiment with FinBERT
`news_engine` uses **Gemini `gemini-2.5-flash-lite`** for headline sentiment, replacing the keyword lexicon (which still exists as a fallback).
The current `news_engine._analyze_headline_sentiment()` uses keyword matching against `BULLISH_KEYWORDS` / `BEARISH_KEYWORDS` sets ([news_engine.py:82-95](news_engine.py#L82-L95)). This misses obvious context — e.g. "RBA signals pause", "Fed patient on rate cuts", "inflation cools" all score `0.00` because the lexicon doesn't include "pause", "patient", or "cools". Around 80% of headlines fetched currently score 0.
- API key loaded from `.env` (`GEMINI_API_KEY=...`) via `python-dotenv`. `.env` is gitignored.
- One **batched** API call per `/scan` — `_score_headlines_batch` sends all uncached titles in a single prompt, returns a JSON array of `{id, score}` ([news_engine.py:355-410](news_engine.py#L355-L410)).
- In-memory cache `_sentiment_cache` keyed by `hash(headline)` — repeat calls for the same headline are free.
- Free-tier quota on `gemini-2.5-flash-lite`: **1000 RPD** (vs 20 on `gemini-2.5-flash` — do not use the non-lite variant).
- If Gemini fails (timeout, 429, parse error), falls back per-headline to `_fallback_keyword_sentiment` so signals still grade.
**Recommended fix: FinBERT (HuggingFace pretrained model on financial news).**
Observed quality lift: ~88% of fetched headlines now get non-zero sentiment (vs ~10% with keywords). Headlines like "RBA signals pause" or "inflation cools below forecast" score correctly bearish where keywords missed them entirely.
- Drop-in replacement for `_analyze_headline_sentiment()`.
- Pretrained on financial headlines, ~70-75% accuracy on this specific domain.
- One-time ~500MB model download; CPU inference ~50ms/headline (fine for ~30 headlines per fetch).
- No API cost, no external dependency at runtime.
Implementation sketch (~30 lines):
```python
from transformers import pipeline
_finbert = pipeline("sentiment-analysis", model="ProsusAI/finbert")
def _analyze_headline_sentiment(self, headline: str) -> float:
result = _finbert(headline[:512])[0] # truncate to model max
label, score = result["label"], result["score"]
if label == "positive": return score
if label == "negative": return -score
return 0.0
```
Add `transformers` and `torch` (or `torch-cpu`) to `requirements.txt`. Cache scored headlines by `hash(headline)` to avoid re-scoring across pairs in the same fetch. Add a try/except fallback to the current keyword logic if model load fails (graceful degradation).
**Realistic uplift on overall signal quality: 1-3% win-rate.** Sentiment is only 10% of the composite score ([config.py:139](config.py#L139)), so even doubling sentiment accuracy moves the needle modestly. Worth doing for technical correctness, not as a P&L optimization.
**Higher-tier alternative: Claude/GPT API per headline.** ~80-85% accurate, $0.001/headline (~$0.03 per /scan with caching). Adds external dependency and latency. Only worth it if FinBERT proves insufficient.
**Cheap alternative without ML: Expand keyword sets.** Add ~50-100 phrases to `BULLISH_KEYWORDS` / `BEARISH_KEYWORDS` ("pause", "patient", "data-dependent", "soft landing", "beat", "revised up" / "miss", "revised down", "warning", "fragile"). Gets ~50% → ~60% accuracy in 30 min, no new deps.
To swap models: change `NewsEngine.GEMINI_MODEL` ([news_engine.py:118](news_engine.py#L118)). Use the new `google-genai` SDK (`from google import genai; genai.Client(api_key=...)`); the older `google-generativeai` package is replaced.
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