Energy gained 2.3%. Mining lost between 2% and 6%. Financials dropped. Tech retreated. The index nearly flat is an arithmetic accident produced by one sector offsetting everything else. The US 30-year yield at a 19-year high is what drove the session.

Gold stayed near $4,500 Tuesday while Canadian miners shed 2% to 6%. The divergence is not a market anomaly. It is the availability heuristic doing what it always does: overwriting the correct frame with the most recent one.

The TSX shed 435 points on May 15 as a global bond rout and stalled Hormuz talks punished miners, banks, and rate-sensitive names. Energy was the lone sector standing. The TSX is closed today for Victoria Day. Tuesday opens with April CPI and the Iran NSC meeting outcome landing simultaneously.