Since the election, stock prices have risen sharply on hopes that a wave of pro-growth policies under Donald J. Trump will drive up equity prices even further.
But Mr. Trump’s administration will soon face a trend that threatens to move the long-term benefits found in stock markets away from investors and toward exchanges.
Specifically, since the approval in June of the IEX Group to become a public exchange, a wave of new exchange proposals has emerged that may lead to an equity market geared to exchange revenue and not investor returns.
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