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NDIV generates income from two sources: dividends from energy and natural resources companies and a covered call strategy that sells call options on its holdings, collecting upfront premiums.

The VIX closed last week at almost 27, an 11% jump on the final trading day, and early signals this week show it climbing further. The fear gauge now sits at its 93rd percentile over the past year, meaning volatility has been this elevated or higher only 7% of trading days in the last 12 months.

Under the surface of soaring crude prices is the realization that the likelihood of Fed cuts later this year is quickly dwindling. Oil dominated the session. WTI crude has surged 33% over the past week, and Thursday added another 9.7% as Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei vowed to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed.

When fear spikes, most investors flee to gold or Treasuries. But five quietly resilient stocks have been doing the work all along, and most investors aren't paying attention. The ranking below weighs dividend stability, earnings consistency, balance sheet strength, and cash flow predictability in a turbulent environment.

His new firm, Augnition Global Investors, is set to be a long-short equity investor that will also invest in private companies, a person close to the firm said. Alan Lo, a longtime partner and director of operations for New York-based SRS Investment Management, will be Wang's number two at the new fund. Those at the Breakers conference expect him to raise at least $1 billion, the two conference attendees told Business Insider.

Hedge funds and other money managers spent $2.8 billion on alternative data in 2025, according to a new report from consultancy Neudata, a 17% jump from the year before. It's more than double what asset managers spent on alternative data in 2021, which includes a wide range of non-traditional information sources. The report projects that the total spend on alternative datasets could jump to more than $23 billion in the consultancy's bull case in 2030 and just under $8 billion in the bear case.

Global markets are getting overbought. It might be time to rotate Notably, global markets seem to be entering a period of historically "overbought" levels. With stocks across the globe running hot, well above their moving averages, while market sentiment skews a bit too greedy, and it certainly feels like a market correction is not only a long time coming, but a nice thing to have with all the froth that's built up after a sensational 2025.

Avala Global, launched by former Viking Global star trader Divya Nettimi, had strong performance numbers in 2025. However, the firm has continued to lose staff. Three investment analysts left in the second half of 2025, and Nettimi's fund is set to lose two more senior executives in 2026, including the firm's COO. Avala Global, the $2 billion manager launched by Nettimi in late 2022, gained 22.1% in 2025, according to the firm's year-end letter to clients, which was viewed by Business Insider.

Over time, markets get ahead of themselves. Excitement over AI, green energy, or whatever the next big thing is tends to push stock valuations far beyond what fundamentals justify. Accordingly, more often than not, a correction can be the catalyst that brings valuation discipline back into the discussion. Think of it as the market taking a deep breath.

To be clear, NVDA has been forced to place non-cancellable purchase orders well before demand is known. This new reality reflects a deliberate decision to lock up supply chain capacity further than Nvidia has ever done before. Nvidia's $117 billion in total supply obligations nearly matched its operating cash flow for the year ended January 25. This is not business as usual. This is risk.

Competition for top quant talent has never been stiffer. With top hedge funds and high-frequency trading firms in expansion mode - and increasingly encroaching on the same turf - the mathematicians, physicists, data scientists, and engineers who power them are in high demand. The emergence of AI labs, which can outbid even the top-tier finance firms with war chests of tens of billions in capital, has only ratcheted up the competition.