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Midday Edition. Wednesday, May 6, 2026

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$43.12
+1.46%

Headline

Iran peace hopes and an AI surge carry XEQT within reach of its 52-week high.

XEQT is up 1.46% at midday, trading at $43.12, just 0.2% below its 52-week high of $43.20. The session's dominant force is international developed markets, whose 2.29% gain is contributing 0.56 percentage points to the fund, edging ahead of a solid U.S. sleeve at +1.15%. The broad advance is consistent with optimism over a potential U.S.-Iran peace agreement, which has sent oil prices sharply lower while lifting equities across every sleeve simultaneously.

How large is this afternoon's move?

Notable day · This afternoon's +1.46% move is 2.4× 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

    25.63% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    +1.03% +0.26 pts to XEQT

    Canada's 1.03% gain masks a sharp internal split. Materials have surged 5.61%, likely driven by gold's 2.86% rise on the day, contributing nearly a full percentage point within the sleeve. That gain is almost entirely offset by a 4.44% decline in energy, consistent with WTI crude falling 6.55% on Iran ceasefire hopes. Financials added a steadying +1.36%, keeping the sleeve in positive territory.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    44.12% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    +1.15% +0.51 pts to XEQT

    The U.S. sleeve is up 1.15%, powered by technology at +1.62% and industrials at +2.06%, the two largest contributors among tracked sectors. AI optimism and peace-deal risk appetite are both visible in the breadth of the advance. Energy was the lone meaningful drag, falling 3.94% within the sleeve, consistent with crude's sharp drop.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.58% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    +2.29% +0.56 pts to XEQT

    The session's strongest sleeve, XEF.TO is up 2.29%, with gains broad across every tracked market. France led at +3.31%, followed by Australia at +2.86% and Germany at +2.18%. European markets are rallying on growing confidence that a negotiated end to the Iran conflict could reopen the Strait of Hormuz, relieving an energy supply risk that had weighed on the region.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    5.46% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    +1.66% +0.09 pts to XEQT

    XEC.TO is up 1.66%, with South Korean equities the standout, gaining 3.82% among the markets tracked. The Kospi has crossed 7,000 for the first time, driven by a chip-led rally that pushed Samsung past a $1 trillion market cap. China-listed equities rose 2.20%, consistent with Beijing's call for a comprehensive ceasefire adding momentum to the broader risk-on move.

    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 move 2.4 times the recent 20-day average is not routine, and the proximity to XEQT's 52-week high makes this session worth marking. What stands out structurally is that the advance is genuinely global: all four sleeves are positive, the 10-year Treasury yield has fallen 1.40% on the day, and the VIX sits at 17.22, reflecting a calmer risk backdrop. For a long-term holder, the more durable signal is the YTD return of +7.37% built on a foundation of broad geographic participation rather than any single concentrated bet.

Signals

  • 01

    Oil's sharp drop rewards energy importers

    WTI crude, the benchmark price for North American oil, is down 6.55% on the session, its sharpest single-day move in recent trading, consistent with expectations that an Iran deal could add supply and reopen a critical shipping route. The effect is visible across sleeves: energy producers in Canada and the U.S. are both lower, while equity markets in Europe and Asia, which import rather than export oil, are among the session's strongest performers.

  • 02

    Intl Developed overtakes U.S. as top contributor

    XEF.TO's 0.562 pp contribution to XEQT at midday exceeds the U.S. sleeve's 0.506 pp, an uncommon inversion given that the U.S. sleeve is nearly 20 percentage points larger by weight. For an XEQT holder, this illustrates the value of the fund's geographic spread: when a specific macro catalyst, here the Iran peace narrative, disproportionately lifts energy-importing developed markets, the non-U.S. allocation amplifies the fund's total return in ways a North America-only portfolio would not capture.

  • 03

    Gold rises as crude falls, splitting Canadian sectors

    Gold is up 2.86% while WTI crude is down 6.55%, a divergence that maps cleanly onto Canada's internal split: materials are surging while energy is the session's weakest domestic sector by a wide margin. The net effect is a 1.03% Canadian sleeve gain that obscures a near-10 percentage point spread between the fund's best and worst domestic sectors, a reminder that the TSX's commodity composition can generate significant internal rotation even on days the index itself looks calm.

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