A hot US inflation print undid four sessions of declining Government of Canada yields within hours, while equity volatility barely moved and two unrelated good-news stories pulled the TSX in different directions at once.

Bond markets price next Wednesday's Bank of Canada decision as a near certainty. The consequential rate event is three days earlier, when Fed Chair Kevin Warsh delivers his first Jackson Hole keynote.

GDP, jobs, and inflation all point toward tightening. Two unresolved events landing within days of the September 2 decision explain why the Bank moves last, not first.

The bond market move that kicked off this month's gold surge reversed within hours. The rally did not, and that gap is the story.

A Treasury bond buyback reversed within 24 hours, yet gold kept the gain it produced, oil rallied on a separate Hormuz story, and the loonie strengthened for a third straight week ahead of Warsh's August 28 Jackson Hole debut and the Bank of Canada's September 2 decision.

The BoC's overnight rate has sat at 2.25 percent for six straight meetings, but the Government of Canada 10-year yield has climbed 34 basis points in the same window, driven by a US bond market the Bank of Canada does not control.

The U.S. Treasury's debt buyback briefly eased global yields and lifted gold on Wednesday, but Canada's own 10 year yield climbed to a fresh high Thursday regardless, and gold's pullback on a fresh Iran escalation shows the week's rally was a rates trade, not a war trade.

Headline CPI accelerated to 3.0 percent in July while core inflation barely moved, and the Federal Reserve's July minutes showed hawkish sentiment running deeper than the three known dissents.

A Treasury buyback and a tariff truce produced a clean risk-on session across equities, oil and the loonie. Gold rose more than all of them, and that gap is the story.

A hot GDP print, a 3.0 percent headline number and a Fed watching Treasury yields hit 19 year highs all land on Macklem's desk before September 2.

Core inflation has been flat for three months. The 30-year Treasury yield hitting its highest level since 2007 is the number that actually moves Canadian mortgage rates.

The Bank of Canada's September 2 decision is likely a formality. The window on either side of it, running through Jackson Hole and the Fed's own September 16 meeting, is where Canadian bond yields are actually being set.

A blowout jobs report pushed Canadian equities to a fresh high. A widening Iran conflict pushed oil and gold to their own. Friday's US retail sales miss cracked one of those stories without touching the other.

Canada's economy is running hotter than the Bank's own forecast while US inflation cools, and Government of Canada yields are already pricing the difference.

A well telegraphed inflation print produced exactly the pattern behavioural finance predicts, and the biggest single mover of the day was a decline.

Wednesday's fourth consecutive record close paired financials with gold miners. Thursday broke the pairing apart, and a cooler U.S. inflation print did not do for Canadian yields what it did for the Fed.