With the 10-year Treasury yield peaking at 5% on Thursday, compounded by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's comments on higher for longer interest rates, investors are unsure where to park investments during a turbulent market.

Oppenheimer Asset Management Chief Investment Strategist John Stoltzfus joins Yahoo Finance to break down how the markets are reacting to historic peaks in interest rates and bond yields, as well as offer insight to what investors should keep in mind during these developments.

"We also think you need to be in the industrial sector, industrials today are not just a lot of machinery but a lot of technology, whether its in energy generation, in aerospace commercial and defense, or as it relates to retail establishments and eCommerce," Stoltzfus says.

He additionally affirms his belief in American consumers continuing to be robust in their spending: "We don't believe in betting against the American consumer. I've been in this business for 40 years and the American consumer spends like a sailor on leave... during good times and during tight times... they still shop."

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Video Transcript

SEANA SMITH: So John more specifically, though, how should investors then be looking at specific investment opportunities? When they're trying to strategize right now, navigate this fact that the yield is right around 5% levels, where are you seeing that opportunity within equities?

JOHN STOLTZFUS: Well, we'd say the opportunities remain in technology profitable companies with positive cash flow that are deeply embedded in the lives of both the consumers and business. We also think that you need to be in the industrial sector. Industrials today are not just a lot of machinery, but a lot of technology, whether it's in energy generation, whether it is in aerospace commercial and defense, or as it relates to retail establishments and e-commerce. Very important, the element of technology getting the goods delivered or the services presented to clients.

BRAD SMITH: John, we just got some earnings out from American Express this morning, and gives us a little bit more inclination or at least some more information, I should say, about the inclination for customers to spend by just tapping into credit where they can. But then that also raises the interest of the conversation around delinquencies, or just being able to continue to deploy cash. What would you describe the consumer as right now, especially considering the fact that they have been hearing about recession talk for the better part of a year at this point?

JOHN STOLTZFUS: Well, I should add, Brad, the other sector is consumer discretionary. We don't believe in betting against the American consumer. I've been in this business for 40 years, and the American consumer spends like a sailor on leave after a long-term of duty during good times and during tight times, or when liquidity is tight and worst times they still shop, they just shop at different places for different things.

Whether it's experiential or stuff, they look for the better pricing, which reintroduces competition for companies involved in that space, which is further support to the Federal Reserve trying to bring the inflation rate down. So when we look at it overall, the upper end consumer tightening the belt a bit, but still by the very virtue of when you look at credit card issuers and you see the results on the crowd that's better heeled, so to speak, better financed in terms of their work or whatever, they tend to keep spending, though they may choose different items.

On the other hand, for those in the middle to the lower strata of credit, what has been remarkable is that during the pandemic on a broad basis, people paid down credit so are better prepared to increase credit now and jobs do remain plentiful, the unemployment rate still remains in what would be defined by the Fed's mandate as full employment, and this is a many months into the Fed funds hikes-- and Fed funds hike cycle since last March.