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Making Alternative Data Work: Context-Augmented LLMs for Financial Forecasting

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 10, 2026 · UTC

When forecasting a firm's future financial performance, alternative data - data collected from non-traditional sources such as consumer transactions, web traffic, and prediction markets - can provide timely signals about firms' operating activities and broader market conditions. These signals may reveal information that is not captured by traditional public sources and can therefore provide complementary information for forecasting firms' future financial performance. However, firm-level alternative data often have limited historical coverage, are relevant only to specific prediction targets o

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