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Close Edition. Monday, April 20, 2026

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$42.53
-0.49%

Headline

International and EM weakness pulls XEQT down 0.49% as Canada holds flat.

XEQT closed at $42.53, shedding 0.49% on a session defined by broad pressure outside North America. The international developed sleeve fell 0.87% and the emerging markets sleeve dropped 1.08%, together accounting for roughly 0.28 percentage points of the fund's decline. The U.S. sleeve contributed an additional 0.20 pp to the downside, while Canada was the lone stabilizing force, finishing the day unchanged.

The Regions

  • Canada

    25.91% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    +0.00% +0.00 pts to XEQT

    XIC.TO ended flat, masking meaningful dispersion beneath the surface. Materials fell 1.45% and real estate slipped 1.19%, while information technology rose 1.42% and energy gained 0.74%. Industrials added 1.02% as well, and the net effect of these offsetting moves left the sleeve at zero for the session.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    43.57% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    -0.46% -0.20 pts from XEQT

    The U.S. sleeve declined 0.46%, with health care the clearest drag among tracked sectors, falling 0.93% for an 0.086 pp within-sleeve pull. Consumer discretionary and communication services also finished in the red. Technology and financials posted modest gains but were not large enough to offset the weakness elsewhere.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    25.06% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    -0.87% -0.22 pts from XEQT

    XEF.TO fell 0.87%, the steepest sleeve decline in percentage terms. Japan was the dominant source of pressure among covered markets, dropping 0.95% and contributing roughly 0.23 pp within the sleeve. The UK, France, Australia, and Spain all lost ground as well. Switzerland, Sweden, and Hong Kong posted small gains but represented too little weight to shift the outcome.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    5.34% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    -1.08% -0.06 pts from XEQT

    XEC.TO fell 1.08%, driven by sharp losses in South Korea and India, which declined 1.47% and 1.46% respectively among the markets tracked here. Saudi Arabia and Thailand also fell. Taiwan edged higher by 0.44% and China was nearly flat, providing partial offsets but insufficient to keep the sleeve positive.

    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 of 0.49% sits well below the recent 20-day average absolute swing of 0.84%, making this a quiet session by recent standards. More telling is the broader context: XEQT has returned 9.59% over the past month and sits 5.90% higher year-to-date, just 0.7% below its 52-week high. The geographic spread of softness across three of four sleeves reflects a broadly risk-off Monday rather than any concentrated stress in the fund's structure. The month-to-date and year-to-date frames remain the more relevant measure for a long-horizon holder.

Signals

  • 01

    Canada offsets global softness

    XIC.TO's flat finish on a day when every other sleeve declined illustrates how domestic equity exposure can act as a stabilizer when international sentiment sours. For XEQT holders, Canada's 25.9% weight meaningfully cushioned what would otherwise have been a sharper fund-level decline.

  • 02

    EM losses concentrated in two markets

    South Korea and India together accounted for the bulk of XEC.TO's 1.08% decline, while Taiwan and China were positive or flat among the markets tracked here, pointing to highly uneven pressure within the sleeve rather than a uniform emerging-market selloff. This concentration means the sleeve's headline loss overstates the breadth of weakness across XEQT's EM exposure.

  • 03

    U.S. health care leads sector weakness

    Health care was the largest single-sector drag in the U.S. sleeve, falling 0.93% while technology and financials held positive. On days when the fund's largest sleeve declines modestly, the internal sector mix can determine whether the sleeve is a major or minor contributor to XEQT's overall move, and health care shifted that calculus meaningfully today.

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