Planalytics Market Insights isolates weather’s impact on financial markets, allowing companies to optimize pricing in areas such as commodities, equities and catastrophic bonds. Utilities and energy end-users, agribusiness and life science companies, consumer-centric energy funds and firms in insurance markets all use Planalytics to account for weather’s influence on market movements and to mitigate the resulting risks. Planalytics’ online tools use a combination of historical and predictive analytics to determine when it is a good time to buy or sell, to project crop conditions (yields, disease threats, etc.) and to identify areas of financial opportunity or risk.