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Historical precedent suggests there’s an 80 percent chance that markets will continue to go up, according to Qontigo.

The lack of big earnings reports or economic data on Monday likely sharpened investors’ focus on economic fears and interest rates, according to Melissa Brown, Global Head of Applied Research at Qontigo in New York.

“It is not just what they did but what they said, and it certainly does seem like they are still worried about inflation and this is not going to be the end of the rate increases,” said Melissa Brown, Global Head of Applied Research at Qontigo in New York.

“If it [the yield curve] were just mildly inverted, maybe you could make the case that the longer term economic outlook looks better than the shorter term, but given the magnitude of that inversion, I think that certainly tilts my opinion more towards a potential recession,” Melissa Brown, Qontigo Managing Director of Applied Research said Thursday in an interview with Investing.com’s Yasin Ebrahim.

Qontigo Managing Director of Applied Research Melissa Brown and Ryan Payne, Payne Capital Management President and ‘Payne Points of Wealth’ Podcast Host, sit down with Yahoo Finance Live to talk about stock and bond market trajectories, Fed rate hikes, and inflation.

Markets are currently moved by signs of an easing of China’s strict covid-zero policy, as well as the next moves by the US Fed – with which Chair Jerome Powell signalled a smaller interest hike for this month. How did markets perform in November? And what can we expect this month as we head to the end of the year? On Money in the Market, finance producer Hongbin Jeong speaks to Olivier d’Assier, Head of Applied Research, APAC, Qontigo to find out more.

Qontigo Head of APAC Applied Research, Olivier d’Assier, discusses investor sentiment and his latest market outlook with Yousef Gamal El-Din on “Bloomberg Daybreak Middle East.”

Melissa Brown, Global Head of Applied Research joined Bloomberg Markets to discuss how factors are driving the further volatility in the equity markets, the significance of international and emerging markets equities for U.S. investors, as well as expectations for Fed policy towards the end of the year.

Olivier d’Assier, Head of APAC Applied Research at Qontigo, discusses his outlook for markets and navigating risks. He speaks with Shery Ahn and Haidi Stroud-Watts on “Daybreak Asia”.

Melissa Brown, Qontigo’s Global Head of Applied Research, spoke with Zahra Tayeb of Insider about how aggressive interest rate hikes and rising yields on US Treasuries are changing the market’s bond dynamic, increasing investors’ appetite for fixed income.

Amid rising inflation worries and expectations of additional interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, U.S. Treasuries have undergone a huge sell-off in recent weeks with no signs of reduced pressure ahead — but sources said there’s still an important place for the embattled bonds in institutional portfolios