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Close Edition. Thursday, April 23, 2026

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$42.19
-0.35%

Headline

Emerging markets and international developed markets drag XEQT lower.

XEQT fell 0.35% on Thursday, closing at $42.19, with broad-based weakness across all four sleeves. International developed markets contributed the most to the decline at -0.136 pp, while emerging markets added a further -0.087 pp despite representing just 5.37% of the fund. The U.S. sleeve contributed -0.110 pp, pulled down by technology and financials, while Canada was nearly flat, shaving only -0.019 pp from the fund. At 0.4 times the recent 20-day average daily move, the session was a mild one by recent standards.

How large is today's move?

Typical day · Today's -0.35% move is 0.4× the 20-day average move.

This scale measures size, not what to do. Larger moves are a normal part of holding a global all-equity fund.

The Regions

  • Canada

    25.84% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    -0.07% -0.02 pts from XEQT

    Canada's sleeve ended nearly unchanged at -0.07%, with sharp cross-currents beneath the surface. Energy rose 1.82% and industrials climbed 1.18%, largely offsetting a steep 4.52% drop in information technology and a 1.53% decline in materials. Financials edged up 0.13%, providing ballast as the sleeve's largest sector.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    43.88% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    -0.25% -0.11 pts from XEQT

    Technology was the primary drag among the sectors tracked, falling 1.42% and contributing -0.475 pp within the sleeve. Consumer discretionary and financials added further pressure. Industrials rose 1.77% and consumer staples gained 1.67%, partially offsetting those losses, but the sleeve still finished down 0.25%.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.65% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    -0.55% -0.14 pts from XEQT

    Declines were broad across the covered developed markets. Japan and the UK posted losses of 0.79% and 0.74% respectively, accounting for the largest within-sleeve drags given their size. Spain fell 1.67%, the Netherlands dropped 1.38%, and Sweden and Italy each declined more than 1.20%. Switzerland was the lone market in positive territory among those tracked, rising just 0.05%.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    5.37% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    -1.61% -0.09 pts from XEQT

    Emerging markets were the weakest sleeve on a percentage basis, falling 1.61%. South Korea declined 3.34% and South Africa dropped 2.88%, while Taiwan and China fell 2.26% and 1.77% respectively. Among the markets tracked, Malaysia was the only one to close in positive territory, gaining 0.07%.

    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 decline of this size sits well within ordinary daily variation, and the broader trend remains constructive: XEQT is up 5.05% year-to-date and 6.78% over the past month. The session illustrated how the fund's structure spreads risk across geographies and sectors, with Canada's near-flat result cushioning losses generated elsewhere. For a long-term holder, a day where the weakest sleeve contributes less than one-tenth of one percent to total fund returns is a day that barely registers in the larger arc.

Signals

  • 01

    Emerging markets uniformly weak

    Every emerging market tracked except Malaysia posted a loss, with South Korea, South Africa, and Taiwan leading the decline. For an XEQT holder, the sleeve's 5.37% weight limits the damage, but the breadth of the weakness is worth monitoring if it persists across sessions.

  • 02

    Canada's sector divergence widens

    A 4.52% drop in Canadian information technology and a 1.82% gain in energy on the same day illustrates how divergent sector conditions can coexist within a single sleeve. The sleeve's aggregate return of -0.07% obscures meaningful underlying rotation among the sectors tracked.

  • 03

    U.S. defensives outperform growth sectors

    Consumer staples rose 1.67% and industrials gained 1.77% within the U.S. sleeve, while technology fell 1.42% and consumer discretionary dropped 1.00%. This pattern of defensives outperforming higher-growth sectors is worth watching as a potential signal of shifting sentiment within U.S. equity markets.

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