MNI TV: Key Exclusive Highlights For Week 45

MNI's key exclusive stories for this week:

MNI INTERVIEW: Fed To Hike Twice More, Hold A While-Weinberg The Federal Reserve will likely raise interest rates twice more in coming months and then keep them there for some time to ensure that inflation resumes its descent toward the central bank’s 2% goal, former Richmond Fed research director John Weinberg told MNI. 

MNI INTERVIEW: Riksbank Head Prefers Gradual Tightening Riksbank Governor Erik Thedeen told MNI he would prefer a gradual approach to further tightening rather than front-loading further hikes after Wednesday’s 25-basis-point increase in the policy rate to 2%.

MNI INTERVIEW: Manufacturing Solid But War Sours Sentiment-ISM U.S. manufacturing activity picked up in October but growth is being held back by policy uncertainty and continued Middle East tensions that is also souring sentiment, Institute for Supply Management manufacturing chair Susan Spence told MNI Monday.