They don't favor anyone, they simply charge for an unbiased service that only traders with considerable other infrastructure investments would care about, and a

They don't favor anyone, they simply charge for an unbiased service that only traders with considerable other infrastructure investments would care about, and at the $1500/mo cost based on the WSJ being cited, it's nothing. They aren't even really delaying the release of the free information, they just don't care about the timing as much as some HFT traders. The only potentially injured parties here are cheapskate professional traders.