AccuWeather president calls for regulation of US National Weather Service
Joel Myers, president of AccuWeather, the Pennsylvania-based weather forecasting company, yesterday called for increased government regulation of the US National Weather Service (NWS), amid fears that its current practice of offering certain institutions advanced access to meteorological data could create opportunities for 'insider trading' in the weather derivatives market.
“The advance delivery of weather information to one sector of the economy, or to a friend, relative or favoured contact or business in a way that may move financial interests clearly creates serious issues of insider trading and improper influence," Myers said.
Myers called for NWS regulation by the US Congress or the Department of Commerce, noting that the release of economic information is already regulated to prevent abuses within other federal government agencies, citing as examples the release of crop reports from the Department of Agriculture, economic statistics from the Department of Commerce and labour statistics from the Department of Labor.
"Giving forecasts for some agricultural interests and not others, favoring one media outlet over another, or tipping off certain financial interests about upcoming official weather forecasts, warnings or outlooks shifts billions of dollars within the economy by favouring one business and penalising another," Myers added. "None of this is the proper role of a government scientific agency and provides unfair advantages in the market-place.”
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