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Close Edition. Friday, April 17, 2026

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$42.74
+1.16%

Headline

All four sleeves advanced, pushing XEQT within striking distance of its 52-week high.

XEQT rose 1.16% on Friday, closing at $42.74, just 0.2% below its 52-week high of $42.84. The session was broadly constructive: every sleeve posted gains, with the United States contributing the most at +0.55 percentage points, followed by international developed markets at +0.31 pp and Canada at +0.23 pp. Emerging markets added a smaller but positive +0.09 pp, rounding out what was a clean sweep across geographies.

The Regions

  • Canada

    25.96% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    +0.90% +0.23 pts to XEQT

    The Canadian sleeve rose 0.90%, though the result masked a sharp internal split. Financials and materials were the primary drivers, with XFN gaining 1.48% and XMA rising 2.10%. Energy was the session's notable detractor: XEG fell 4.77%, subtracting roughly 0.78 pp from the sleeve's return on its own, which kept Canada's contribution well below what the rest of the sector mix would have otherwise produced.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    43.48% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    +1.27% +0.55 pts to XEQT

    The U.S. sleeve advanced 1.27%, led by consumer discretionary (+2.36%) and industrials (+1.87%) among the sectors tracked. Technology contributed the largest share given its sleeve weight, rising 1.53%. U.S. energy was the only sector in negative territory at -2.76%, echoing the pattern seen in Canada.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    25.03% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    +1.25% +0.31 pts to XEQT

    International developed markets gained 1.25%, with broad participation across Europe. Switzerland rose 2.18%, Sweden 2.03%, and Germany 1.96% among the markets represented here. Japan and the UK, the two largest country weights in the sleeve, posted more modest gains of 0.87% and 0.86% respectively, which moderated the sleeve's overall advance.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    5.30% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    +1.73% +0.09 pts to XEQT

    South Korea surged 3.30% and South Africa 3.31%, while Taiwan added 2.30% and India 2.56%, making the emerging markets sleeve the strongest performer on a percentage basis at +1.73%. Brazil was the lone detractor at -0.75%. The sleeve's smaller weight in XEQT capped its contribution at +0.09 pp despite those outsized individual moves.

    Emerging Markets market region icon

Colored bars represent biggest contributors to XEQT's move today (threshold = ±0.1 percentage points). Returns are daily ETF price moves for tracked regional or sector categories and may differ slightly from raw index movements.

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The Hold Line

A move 1.3 times the recent 20-day average, shared across all four sleeves simultaneously, is a relatively rare alignment. What stands out is not merely the size of the gain but its breadth: no single sleeve carried the fund, and even the smallest contributed positively. With XEQT's YTD return now at +6.42% and the fund within $0.10 of an all-time 52-week high, the month-to-date and year-to-date frames tell a more complete story than any single session. The energy sector's simultaneous weakness in both Canada and the U.S. is worth watching, but it was not large enough relative to the fund's overall composition to alter the day's outcome.

Signals

  • 01

    Energy drag crosses two sleeves

    Canadian energy fell 4.77% and U.S. energy fell 2.76% on the same session, a synchronized decline across the sector in both markets. For an XEQT holder, energy's combined weight across sleeves is moderate enough that this subtracted only marginally from the fund's total return, but the pattern is worth monitoring if it persists.

  • 02

    EM strength concentrated in Northeast Asia

    South Korea, Taiwan, and India collectively drove most of the emerging markets sleeve's 1.73% advance, while Brazil was the only meaningful detractor among the markets represented here. The geographic concentration of EM gains is a reminder that the sleeve's return can swing substantially depending on a handful of large country weights.

  • 03

    XEQT approaching 52-week high

    At $42.74, XEQT closed just 0.2% below its 52-week high of $42.84, with a YTD gain of +6.42% providing meaningful cushion above the $31.16 low set over the past year. For a long-term holder, proximity to a high reflects cumulative progress in the portfolio rather than a signal requiring any repositioning.

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