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Chinese President Xi’s recent reply to a group of visiting American students highlighted how quickly sentiment can travel across borders. For quantitative traders, such geopolitical anecdotes are more than news—they are data points that can be encoded, modeled, and turned into predictive signals when combined with high‑dimensional statistical techniques. The Value of Unstructured Text in Market Forecasts Unstructured narratives—tweets, diplomatic statements, or interview excerpts—contain information that traditional price series miss. When a senior leader publicly acknowledges a positive experience by foreign students, it may signal a softening of diplomatic tension, which historically correlates with modest improvements in equity flows between the two economies. Converting the text into a numeric feature...