Michael Hewson became one of the Square Mile's most well known market commentators, offering insights and analysis from his perch at CMC Markets for 16 years. He may have retired from that role but his commentary is no less pithy. When a Labour minister claimed recently that there could have been a run on the pound if the government hadn't moved to cut winter fuel payments to pensioners, Hewson posed a simple question on X: "are you on crack?" Shore Capital's Clive Black expressed a similar sentiment, if less colourfully: "Lucy Powell does not instill confidence."

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