A G7 reserve release trimmed both benchmarks by under 2% in early Tuesday trading and left the Brent-WTI gap at $10.90.

Swaps price 7 basis points for October 28 and bank forecasts top out at 2.50% for year end, yet the two-year yield implies far more, and the TSX has lagged the S&P 500 by 2.8 points since September 4.

Equities priced relief on Friday, but Treasury yields and USD/CAD closed higher, and the currency has done more to separate Canadian portfolio returns since August 26 than any move in the TSX.

WTI crude rose from $69.50 to $89.38 between June 30 and September 29 while USD/CAD moved from 1.4210 to 1.4188, and the widening gap between US and Canadian two-year yields tracks the currency far more closely than oil does.

The 3-month yield fell and the 30-year yield rose after the August PCE, while the US minus Canada 10-year spread and USD/CAD kept climbing.

A sale on September 29 settles October 1 and restricts repurchase through October 31, while the federal tax value of the loss is smaller than the single-day move in gold on Monday.

Crude rose 3.1% and the TSX fell, but the clearest signal was gold dropping 2.9%: a haven priced against a near 5.2% yield stops behaving like one.

Five desks, one throughline. A 175 basis point gap between the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Canada moved the currency, the bond market, the mining sector and client conversations this week, while oil told a stranger story of its own.

A Hormuz de-escalation report lifted oil and calmed equities this afternoon. It did nothing for the Canadian dollar, because the real story today is in the bond market, not the Persian Gulf.

The Fed hike case is running on U.S. demand while the Bank of Canada hike case is running on crude, which turns a Hormuz peace deal into a double negative for the Canadian dollar.

Six straight sessions of falling crude are undercutting the fuel-cost case for further Bank of Canada hikes, while a materials rally reveals where Canadian investors are actually positioning.

Four sessions of falling crude reflect a shipping rebound the Pentagon is describing and Tehran is denying, and Canadian yields are not confirming either story.

Thursday's Fed relief rally reversed within one session, and the asset that should have fallen alongside rising bond yields did the opposite instead.

Two central banks read the same energy-driven inflation data this week and reached opposite conclusions about whether it will last. Thursday sided with the one that held.

A hawkish Fed hike hit Wall Street and TSX financials the same day Ottawa and Brussels moved to deepen trade and defence ties.

The safe-haven trade that should have followed a physical bypass shutdown around the Strait of Hormuz never arrived, and the reason points to Wednesday's rate decision, not the war.