The Canadian markets started the trading week off mixed with a falling United States currency helping the gold miners, while the financials and metal miners gave back ground. For the tale of the tape, the TSX Exchange fell 2.13%, while the TSX Gold Index surged 7.1% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, rallied 1.73% with the advancing issuers inching past the decliners by a 426 to 422 margin on volume of 135 million shares traded.