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Midday Edition. Thursday, April 23, 2026

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$42.34
+0.00%

Headline

Emerging markets pressure XEQT flat as North America holds steady.

XEQT is trading unchanged at $42.34 through midday Thursday, with small gains from Canada and the U.S. sleeve roughly offset by a meaningful pullback in emerging markets. The EM sleeve is down 0.87% on the session, enough to subtract nearly 0.05 percentage points from the fund. International developed markets are essentially flat, contributing little in either direction. The net result is a fund holding its ground despite notable dispersion across its four sleeves.

The Regions

  • Canada

    25.84% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    +0.09% +0.02 pts to XEQT

    The Canadian sleeve is up 0.09%, a modest headline figure that masks considerable cross-sector movement. Energy and industrials are among the stronger areas tracked, rising 1.11% and 0.99% respectively, while information technology has given back 3.68%, the steepest sector decline within the sleeve. Financials, the largest sector weight at roughly a third of the sleeve, are adding a constructive 0.45%.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    43.88% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    +0.07% +0.03 pts to XEQT

    The U.S. sleeve is up 0.07%, with industrials providing the clearest tailwind among tracked sectors, rising 2.15%. Technology and financials are both softer, declining 0.71% and 0.67%, which is absorbing much of the industrials-led gain. Consumer staples are adding a quiet 1.56%, offering a degree of defensive support within the covered exposures.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.65% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    -0.02% -0.01 pts from XEQT

    XEF is down just 0.02%, a near-standstill result that reflects broadly offsetting moves across markets. Switzerland and France are the relative bright spots among countries tracked, while Spain, Sweden, and the Netherlands are each down between 0.67% and 0.99%. Japan, the largest country weight in the sleeve, is slipping 0.19%.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    5.37% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    -0.87% -0.05 pts from XEQT

    The EM sleeve is carrying the most weight on XEQT's session. South Korea, China, and Taiwan-related equities are each declining between 1.30% and 1.77% among the markets tracked, and South Africa is down 1.82%. Together these moves are driving the sleeve's 0.87% decline, which at 5.37% of the fund is still a meaningful drag given the broad nature of the weakness.

    Emerging Markets market region icon

Colored bars represent biggest contributors to XEQT's move this afternoon (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 flat session for XEQT on a day with this level of internal dispersion is worth noting. The fund's five-week gain of 7.16% and a YTD return of 5.43% provide the more relevant frame: a single midday standstill is noise against that backdrop. What the session does illustrate is how the fund's structure distributes risk. The EM sleeve's broad decline is real, but its 5.37% weight limits the damage to the fund level, while North America's steadiness absorbs the pressure.

Signals

  • 01

    EM breadth weak across tracked markets

    Declines among tracked emerging market equities are broad-based, spanning South Korea, China, Taiwan, South Africa, and Saudi Arabia, with very few offsetting gains. For an XEQT holder, the EM sleeve's weight of roughly 5% naturally caps the fund-level impact, and the session's flat result reflects that structural buffer in real time.

  • 02

    Canadian IT diverges sharply from energy

    Canadian information technology is down 3.68% while energy has risen 1.11% within the same sleeve, a divergence of nearly five percentage points between two meaningful sector weights. The opposing moves are largely cancelling within Canada, illustrating how single-sleeve sector swings can neutralize one another before reaching the fund level.

  • 03

    U.S. industrials outpace tech mid-session

    U.S. industrials are up 2.15% among tracked sectors, while technology is down 0.71%, a rotation that is keeping the U.S. sleeve marginally positive despite headwinds from its largest sector weight. This kind of intra-sleeve rotation is worth watching as a signal of shifting market leadership, though the net sleeve move of 0.07% reflects how closely the forces are balanced.

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