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chemavxandClaude Opus 4.8
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Two minor faults found during the GNews capture/prioritisation diagnostic: 1. Hyphens/dashes reached the GNews query verbatim. '-' is GNews's exclusion operator, so a token like "El-Sayed" returned HTTP 400 and wasted a query. _PUNCT_RE now strips '-', en dash and em dash to spaces. 2. The per-cycle GNews budget counter incremented in evaluate() before get_sentiment() checked the API key, so with no key configured the [CYCLE SUMMARY] reported a phantom "gnews_queries_used: 5/5" with zero real requests. Added NewsClient.enabled and gated the GNews block on it; with no key the counter stays 0/5 and no spurious SKIP_GNEWS_PRIORITY is logged. No behaviour change when a key is present. Prioritisation itself was confirmed correct and is left untouched: politics markets are sorted by gnews_priority DESC and prior-extreme markets return before the budget is consumed, so no query is ever spent on a market that cannot trade. Tests: tests/test_news_query.py (4 new); full suite 66 passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>