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Open Edition. Monday, April 20, 2026

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$42.62
-0.28%

Headline

International developed markets pull XEQT lower in early Monday trading.

XEQT is down 0.28% at the open, with the move driven almost entirely by weakness in international developed markets. The XEF sleeve is off 0.76% early, accounting for roughly 0.19 percentage points of the fund's decline. The U.S. and Canadian sleeves are broadly steady, together contributing a net drag of less than 0.03 percentage points so far.

The Regions

  • Canada

    25.96% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    +0.05% +0.01 pts to XEQT

    Canada is essentially flat early, with XIC up just 0.05%. Energy is the brightest spot among tracked sectors, up 1.31%, while materials are under pressure, falling 1.61%. The two moves largely offset each other, leaving financials, which are edging higher, as the sleeve's marginal support.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    43.48% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    -0.09% -0.04 pts from XEQT

    The U.S. sleeve is off 0.09% at the open, a modest drag. Financials and technology are both slightly positive among tracked sectors, but consumer discretionary is down 0.70%, accounting for most of the sleeve's early weakness. The net contribution to XEQT is a slim negative 0.04 percentage points.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    25.03% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    -0.76% -0.19 pts from XEQT

    This sleeve is the defining story of the morning. Japan is the largest single weight and is down 0.90% early, contributing roughly 0.22 percentage points of drag within the sleeve. The UK, France, Germany, and Spain are all negative as well, leaving Sweden and Hong Kong as the only bright spots among the markets tracked here.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    5.30% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    -0.70% -0.04 pts from XEQT

    XEC is down 0.70%, though at 5.3% of XEQT its contribution to the fund's decline is limited to about 0.04 percentage points. India and South Korea are the main sources of weakness among tracked markets, falling 1.28% and 0.92% respectively. Taiwan is slightly positive, partially offsetting those moves within the sleeve.

    Emerging Markets market region icon

Colored bars represent biggest contributors to XEQT's move this morning (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 decline of 0.28% is roughly 0.3 times the recent 20-day average daily move, making this a quiet open by recent standards. XEQT sits just 0.5% below its 52-week high, and the YTD return of 6.13% provides meaningful context for a single soft morning. The international developed sleeve is doing its job as a diversifier in the fund's construction, even on a day when it is the source of pressure rather than support.

Signals

  • 01

    Intl Developed breadth unusually weak

    Among the markets tracked within the XEF sleeve, only Sweden and Hong Kong are positive at the open, with every other major market in the red. For XEQT holders, this kind of broad softness in a 25% sleeve is worth watching, though at current magnitudes it remains within the fund's normal daily range.

  • 02

    Canadian materials drag offsets energy strength

    Canadian materials are down 1.61% while energy is up 1.31% in early trading, producing a near-cancellation within the Canadian sleeve. The result is that Canada contributes almost nothing to XEQT's move in either direction, illustrating how sector crosscurrents can neutralize sleeve-level impact.

  • 03

    EM weakness concentrated in two markets

    South Korea and India together account for the bulk of the emerging markets sleeve's early decline, while Taiwan and Brazil are marginally positive among the markets tracked. This concentration means the XEC sleeve's 0.70% move reflects stress in specific markets rather than uniform pressure across the sleeve.

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