The Securities and Exchange Commission has rejected a hotly disputed proposal to add a new “speed bump,” or split-second trading delay, to the U.S. stock market. In an order posted on its website on Friday, the SEC disapproved a plan from Cboe Global Markets Inc. to introduce a four-millisecond speed bump to one of its exchanges. The regulator called Cboe’s proposal “discriminatory” and said Cboe hadn’t provided enough evidence to show that it would benefit the markets by curbing ultrafast trading strategies.

Source: Wall Street Journal February 21, 2020 12:56 UTC