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Melissa Brown spoke to Tim Smart of U.S. News & World Report about current market conditions noting, “sentiment has been quite positive over the last two months.

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

Stocks immediately fell Wednesday afternoon following the Fed’s announcement before quickly rebounding.”No big surprise in today’s announcement, either in the level of rate increase or in the accompanying language,” Melissa Brown, Global Head of Applied Research at financial analytics and index provider Qontigo, said in an emailed statement.

Melissa Brown, Managing Director of Applied Research at Qontigo, said the 25 basis point increase is baked in already, but what the policy makers say about what they will do for the rest of the year is what’s going to be important.

Olivier D’Assier, APAC Applied Research Head at Qontigo, discusses the latest on the markets. He spoke with hosts Doug Krizner and Vonnie Quinn on “Bloomberg Daybreak Asia.”

Paul Allen in Sydney and Kathleen Hays in New York drive to the Asia, Australia and New Zealand market opens while wrapping the biggest stories of the previous day on Wall Street. One of today’s guests: Olivier d’Assier, Qontigo Head of Applied Research, APAC (Source: Bloomberg)

The Dow racked up gains Wednesday, as investors increased bullish bets on stocks on optimism that data due Thursday will show a further slowdown in inflation. “Earnings expectations have come down already… that probably means there’s less of a chance of negative surprises,” Melissa Brown, Managing Director of Applied Research at Qontigo, told Investing.com’s Yasin Ebrahim on Wednesday.

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.