

The 1983 movie Trading Places features Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy as commodities traders who get their hands on the U.S. Department of Agriculture's harvest report before its release. Predictable mischief ensues. In real life it's not so easy to snatch unreleased government data. But a small Chicago firm, Lanworth, is doing the next best thing, which is to re-create it from the outside. (Forbes)