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Midday Edition. Monday, April 27, 2026

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$42.16
-0.40%

Headline

All four sleeves slip as XEQT falls 0.40% at midday.

XEQT is down 0.40% through the first half of Monday's session, sitting at $42.16 as modest declines across all four geographic sleeves accumulate. The U.S. sleeve is the largest drag, contributing roughly 0.18 percentage points to the loss on a -0.41% return. International developed markets follow closely, off 0.49% for a 0.12 pp contribution. The move is running at about 0.6 times the fund's recent 20-day average, placing this squarely in the range of routine midday softness.

How large is this afternoon's move?

Typical day · This afternoon's -0.40% move is 0.6× 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

    25.80% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    -0.30% -0.08 pts from XEQT

    Canada is the smallest contributor to the decline, with XIC down 0.30%. The session is defined by a sharp divergence within the sleeve: materials have shed 1.56%, consistent with gold pulling back 1.07% and copper slipping 0.26%, while energy has added 2.08% as WTI crude climbs 2.17% on stalled U.S.-Iran peace talks. Those two moves nearly cancel each other out, leaving financials, down a modest 0.10%, as the marginal weight on the sleeve.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    44.14% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    -0.41% -0.18 pts from XEQT

    The U.S. sleeve is off 0.41%, with technology, the largest tracked sector at a third of the sleeve, down 0.37%. Consumer discretionary has shed 0.47% and consumer staples 0.62%, adding to the pressure. Financials and communication services are both firmer, up 0.78% and 0.61% respectively, providing partial offsets. Investors appear to be positioning cautiously ahead of a busy week of megacap earnings.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.56% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    -0.49% -0.12 pts from XEQT

    XEF is down 0.49%, the weakest sleeve on a percentage basis. Among the markets tracked, weakness is broad across continental Europe: the Netherlands has fallen 1.08%, Sweden 1.14%, Switzerland 0.62%, and the UK 0.56%. Japan is a meaningful exception, rising 0.39% and contributing roughly 0.10 pp in the other direction. The net result is a sleeve that would have declined more sharply without Japan's partial cushion.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    5.37% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    -0.41% -0.02 pts from XEQT

    XEC is down 0.41%, though the composition of that move is sharp. Taiwan-listed equities and China-related holdings have fallen 1.07% and 1.34% respectively among the markets tracked, consistent with broader emerging market strain documented as the Iran conflict's economic toll spreads. South Korea has risen 1.24%, almost fully offsetting those two drags within the sleeve's tracked portion.

    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 uniformly negative session across all four sleeves is less common than mixed-direction days, yet the magnitude here is well within normal. XEQT remains up nearly 5% year-to-date and more than 8% over the past month, and sits only 1.6% below its 52-week high. The internal offsetting forces visible today, energy against materials in Canada, Japan against European weakness in developed markets, South Korea against China and Taiwan in emerging markets, reflect the geographic and sector breadth that defines the fund's construction. Sessions like this one are part of the pattern, not exceptions to it.

Signals

  • 01

    Oil lift splits Canadian sectors

    WTI crude rising 2.17% to $96.45 is pulling Canadian energy up 2.08% while gold's 1.07% pullback weighs on materials, creating the sharpest within-sleeve divergence of any region today. For XEQT holders, Canada's flat-to-slightly-negative contribution masks significant sector rotation happening beneath the surface.

  • 02

    Europe leads developed-market weakness

    Among the international developed markets tracked, the steepest losses are concentrated in northern and western Europe, with Sweden and the Netherlands each off more than 1%, while Japan's 0.39% gain is acting as the sleeve's principal counterweight. This geographic split within XEF is worth watching as European earnings season progresses.

  • 03

    EM internals diverge sharply

    South Korea's 1.24% advance is running directly against declines of more than 1% in China- and Taiwan-related holdings, compressing the emerging markets sleeve to a net -0.41% that obscures considerable cross-current activity. For a long-term XEQT holder, that internal offsetting limits the sleeve's damage to just 0.02 pp of fund-level impact.

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