CME Group Inc. (CME) has been eliminated from the sale process to buy the London Metal Exchange, leaving just two bidders in the frame to acquire the 135-year-old exchange, people familiar with the matter told Dow Jones Newswires Tuesday.

Rival exchanges IntercontinentalExchange Inc. (ICE) and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd. (0388.HK) are the final candidates left in the running to buy the world's biggest metals trading exchange, the people said. The LME eliminated NYSE Liffe, the London-based derivatives arm of NYSE Euronext (NYX), from the sale process May 11.

CME Group declined to comment. The LME declined to comment.

-By Andrea Hotter, Dow Jones Newswires; +44 (0)20 7842 9413; andrea.hotter@dowjones.com

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