Finance and Economics；The London Metal Exchange；Metal cashing；Who wants to buy the LME?
财经；伦敦金属交易所；金属兑现；谁会买下LME？

The sight of a pack of adults shouting at each other is rarely edifying. Unless, that is, the set-to is in the “ring” of the London Metal Exchange (LME), whose old-fashioned system of open-outcry trading does much to set global prices for industrial metals and which is now itself the subject of a bidding battle. Only Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing had publicly said that it would submit an offer for the world’s leading metals exchange by this week’s deadline of May 7th, but CME Group, InterContinental Exchange and NYSE Euronext are also widely reported to be in the frame.

那群家伙聚在一起相互吼叫一点用都没有，除非能在伦敦金属交易所（LME）的“擂台”上互殴一顿。LME老式的公开叫价贸易系统对全球工业金属价格有着深远的影响，但是现在LME已沦为竞购的对象。在这周的截止日期之前（5月7日），只有香港交易所公开表示会对这个世界领先的金属交易所提出报价，但芝加哥商业交易所、洲际交易所和纽约泛欧交易所的染指也诸见报端。

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