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$42.50
+0.78%

Headline

Three sleeves rise in concert as XEQT closes at $42.50.

XEQT gained 0.78% on Tuesday, closing at $42.50 and sitting just 0.8% below its 52-week high. The advance was unusually broad: international developed markets, the United States, and emerging markets all contributed meaningfully, with only Canada acting as a modest drag. U.S. technology stocks reached record highs alongside the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, while AI chip strength and easing oil prices helped Wall Street shrug off Middle East tensions.

How large is today's move?

Larger-than-usual day · Today's +0.78% move is 1.3× 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

    25.72% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    -0.20% -0.05 pts from XEQT

    The Canadian sleeve fell 0.20%, subtracting 0.05 pp from XEQT. The drag was concentrated in Canadian information technology, which dropped 4.11% and erased gains from energy, which rose 1.27%, and financials, which added 0.73%. WTI crude fell 3.77% on the day, yet Canadian energy still closed higher, suggesting domestic producers held up despite the commodity's sharp retreat.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    44.30% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    +0.91% +0.40 pts to XEQT

    The U.S. sleeve rose 0.91%, contributing 0.40 pp. Technology was the engine, advancing 2.21% within the sleeve and accounting for the bulk of the gain as AI-related chip stocks drove index records. Communication services slipped 0.40% and financials were essentially flat, but those offsets were small against technology's weight.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.39% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    +1.32% +0.32 pts to XEQT

    XEF.TO climbed 1.32%, adding 0.32 pp and ranking as the second-largest contributor by sleeve weight. Continental Europe was notably strong among the markets tracked: Italy rose 2.74%, Spain 2.46%, the Netherlands 2.24%, Germany 2.19%, and France 1.92%. Japan also contributed with a 1.29% advance. The United Kingdom was the outlier, essentially flat at 0.06%, consistent with oil-sector pressure on the FTSE 100.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    5.42% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    +2.61% +0.14 pts to XEQT

    XEC.TO surged 2.61%, contributing 0.14 pp despite the sleeve's modest 5.42% weight. South Korean equities rose 6.04% among the markets tracked, the session's single most striking country move, consistent with strength in semiconductor and chip-adjacent names. Taiwan-listed equities gained 2.61% and India added 1.09%, while China edged down 0.14%.

    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.

The Hold Line

A session in which three of four sleeves posted gains above 0.9% is genuinely uncommon, and the breadth here carried real weight. XEQT's 0.78% advance brought the fund within striking distance of a 52-week high, with a YTD return now at 5.83%. The one sleeve in the red, Canada, lost less than one basis point more than it contributed in positive days this week. For a long-term holder, the geographic spread of the day's gains is a reminder that diversification across regions often means one sleeve saves the others, but on days like this, the benefit flows the other way.

Signals

  • 01

    South Korean equities post outsized gain

    South Korean equities rose 6.04% among the emerging markets tracked, far outpacing every other country in the data set and consistent with reported AI chip strength lifting semiconductor-heavy markets globally. For an XEQT holder, South Korea's roughly 17% weight within the EM sleeve means a move of this size shifted the sleeve's entire return materially upward, even against a flat China reading.

  • 02

    Oil drops sharply; Canadian energy holds

    WTI crude, a benchmark for global oil prices, fell 3.77% to $102.41, one of the sharpest single-session declines in recent weeks, yet Canadian energy stocks still closed up 1.27% within the sleeve. The divergence is worth noting: it suggests that at current price levels, Canadian producers may be absorbing commodity softness without significant equity damage, though a sustained crude decline would eventually test that resilience.

  • 03

    XEQT approaches 52-week high

    At $42.50, XEQT closed just 0.8% below its 52-week high of $42.84, and the YTD return stands at 5.83% with the fund 27.3% above its 52-week low. The fund's 20-day average absolute daily move is 0.58%, and the session's 0.78% gain ran 1.3 times that average, meaning the approach to the high was not incremental but meaningfully accelerated on a single day.

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