The Nikkei 225 Futures, introduced at Singapore Exchange ( SGX ) in 1986, the Osaka Securities Exchange ( OSE ) in 1988, Chicago Mercantile Exchange ( CME ) in 1990, is now an internationally recognized futures index.

After you pass the exams, you need to apply for the license through MAS and SGX.

The TSE is also looking for some partners in Asia, and more specifically is seeking an alliance with the Singapore Exchange ( SGX ), which is considered as becoming a leading financial hub in the Asia-Pacific region.

Recently, some rumors close to the deal suggest that the TSE is preparing for a takeover of the SGX, or at least take a major stake, in the first semester of 2008.

The TSE has already acquired a 5 % stake in the SGX as of June 2007, deemed to be only the beginning of greater participation.

It has been revealed so far to be something on Nvidia's Tegra platform, and also Palm's webOS running PowerVR's SGX chip.

Singapore Exchange Limited ( SGX, ) is an investment holding company located in Singapore and providing different services related to securities and derivatives trading and others.

SGX operates several different divisions, each responsible for handling specific businesses.

* SGX ETS ( Electronic Trading System ): provides global trading access to SGX markets where 80 percent of the customers are from outside Singapore.

* SGX DT ( Derivatives Trading ): provides derivatives trading.

* SGX ST ( Securities Trading ): provides securities trading.

* SGX DC ( Derivatives Clearing ): subsidiary for clearing and settlement operations.

* SGX AsiaClear: offers clearing services for over-the-counter ( OTC ) oil swaps and forward freight agreements.

* SGX Reach: an electronic trading platform.

The companies listed on SGX belong to one of two groups: the companies listed on the SGX Mainboard and the companies listed on SGX SESDAQ.

In order to be listed on the mainboard, a company has to fulfill some requirements set forth by SGX, while a listing a SESDAQ is not tied to the fullfillment of any additional conditions.

The exchange launched SGX QUEST ( SGX Quotation and Execution System ) in August 2004.

SGX was formed on 1 December 1999 as a holding company.

The share capital of some former exchange companies, namely Stock Exchange of Singapore ( SES ), Singapore International Monetary Exchange ( Simex ) and Securities Clearing and Computer Services Pte Ltd ( SCCS ) was cancelled and new shares issued in these companies were fully paid up by SGX.

It was indeed a remarkable feat that a man who had had no experience of bridge building should have applied the principle of the arch, which appears in his famous bridges at Portsmouth, Haverhill, and Philadelphia.

For example, to move ( as the score requires ) from the lowest F-major register up to a barely audible N minor in four seconds, not skipping, at the same time, even one of the 407 fingerings, seems a feat too absurd to consider, and it is to the flautist's credit that he remained silent throughout the passage.

So strenuous it was physically, with its days of horseback riding over rough roads that it seems an amazing feat of endurance for both Miss Packard and Miss Upton.

Only Bucky Harris, the `` boy-manager '' of Washington in 1924, and Eddie Dyer of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1946 had accomplished the feat.

When Mickey Charles Mantle, the New York Yankees' man of muscle, drives a home run 450 feet into the bleachers, his feat touches upon the sublime.

Julius Comroe wrote: " Between 1901 and 1910, Alexis Carrel, using experimental animals, performed every feat and developed every technique known to vascular surgery today.

As he was dying on the voyage back from Egypt, he gave instructions to those close to him that they should not be responsible for making any image of his person, be it modeled or painted or copied, " For if I have accomplished any glorious feat, that will be my memorial.

Such a feat was also attributed to Roger Bacon.

* 1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.

* 1926 – Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.

That victory meant Ajax had won every tournament ( 5 in total ) they entered that year, a feat Celtic achieved in 1967 ( with 6 trophies ) and Barcelona ( also 6 trophies ) repeated in 2009.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá was fifteen or sixteen at the time and ` Alí Shawkat Páshá regarded the more than 11000 word essay as a remarkable feat for somebody of his age.

The pop science TV program MythBusters attempted to model Archimedes ' feat by using mirrors to ignite a small wooden boat covered with tar, with only partial success — they found it too difficult to focus light from their hand-held mirrors onto a point small enough to ignite the boat.

Five players have accomplished the feat in National League games.

Jackie Robinson was also renowned for the thrilling feat of stealing home, which he famously accomplished in Game 1 of the 1955 World Series.

Routinely in today's baseball age we see players reach 40 and 50 home runs in a season, a feat that even in the 1980s was considered rare.

He also became the first starting pitcher to win this award since Roger Clemens had accomplished the feat in 1986.

It is uncertain how they were able to accomplish this feat.

In addition to winning the 1966 MVP, Robinson also won the Triple Crown ( leading the American League in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in ), a feat also achieved the following season by Boston's Carl Yastrzemski but never since.

In 1971, the team's four starting pitchers, McNally, Cuellar, Palmer, and Pat Dobson, all won 20 games, a feat that has not been replicated.

Crassus personally killed their king, Deldo, in combat, a feat which qualified him for Rome's highest military honour, spolia opima, but Augustus refused to award it on a technicality.

He achieved this feat in 2005 by scoring his first Test century against Pakistan at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados.

* He also scored a century and a double century in the third Test in that same Sri Lanka tour, a feat repeated only five other times in Test cricket history.

This included the 1948 season, in which the Browns became the first unbeaten and untied team in professional football history, 24 years before the NFL's 1972 Miami Dolphins duplicated the feat.

On the other hand, Steve McMichael holds the record for most consecutive games played by a Bear with 191 ; he accomplished the feat from 1981 to 1993.