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$43.06
+1.32%

Headline

Iran deal hopes send XEQT to its 52-week high in early trading.

XEQT was trading at $43.06 in early trading Wednesday, up 1.32% and within a cent of its 52-week high of $43.07, as reports of a potential U.S.-Iran peace deal sent equities broadly higher and drove oil sharply lower. All four sleeves are advancing, with international developed markets providing the largest contribution at an estimated 0.55 percentage points. The move is roughly 2.1 times the recent 20-day average daily swing, making this one of the more consequential sessions of the past month.

How large is this morning's move?

Notable day · This morning's +1.32% move is 2.1× 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
    +1.10% +0.28 pts to XEQT

    Canada's XIC sleeve is up 1.10% early in the session, but the composition is sharply divided. Canadian materials are surging, consistent with gold rising more than 3% and copper nearly as much, while Canadian energy is down nearly 4% as WTI crude falls more than 6% on the Iran deal optimism. Those two forces are largely offsetting each other within the sleeve, leaving financials, up just over 1%, as the steadying force.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    44.12% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    +0.73% +0.32 pts to XEQT

    The U.S. sleeve is up 0.73%, with technology and industrials among the stronger areas tracked, each gaining over 1.4%. Energy is the clear exception, off nearly 4% in line with the crude oil drop. Health care is essentially flat, while the remaining sectors are posting modest gains.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.58% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    +2.25% +0.55 pts to XEQT

    International developed markets are the headline driver, with XEF.TO up 2.25% and contributing an estimated 0.55 percentage points to XEQT. Every market tracked in this sleeve is rising, with France, Sweden, and Australia among the strongest. European markets are responding directly to Iran peace deal optimism, which has lifted sentiment broadly across the region.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    5.46% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    +1.38% +0.08 pts to XEQT

    XEC.TO is up 1.38%, with South Korea the standout: the Kospi broke 7,000 for the first time as an AI-driven rally in semiconductor shares pushed Samsung Electronics past a USD 1 trillion market cap. South Africa is also notably strong among the markets tracked. Taiwan, China, and India are each advancing modestly, while Brazil and Saudi Arabia are marginally lower.

    Emerging Markets market region icon

Colored bars represent biggest contributors to XEQT's move this morning (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

Proximity to a 52-week high is a moment worth registering, not a reason to act. The fund's YTD gain now sits at 7.22% and the 1-month return is nearly 6%, built on a sequence of sessions that includes meaningful reversals as well as advances. The sector split inside Canada today, materials surging while energy falls sharply, is a reminder that geographic diversification and sector breadth are doing real work inside the portfolio, even on days when the headline number looks clean.

Signals

  • 01

    Oil drops 6%, reshaping sector returns

    WTI crude, which tracks the price of a barrel of U.S. benchmark oil and serves as a reference for global energy sector earnings, is down more than 6% on Iran deal optimism, pulling Canadian and U.S. energy sectors down nearly 4% each while lifting equity markets broadly. For XEQT holders, the loss in energy names is largely absorbed by gains across technology, materials, and international equities, illustrating how a commodity shock can cut in multiple directions at once within a diversified fund.

  • 02

    Gold and copper lift Canadian materials

    Gold is up 3.14% and copper up 2.92% in early trading, driving Canadian materials to a 6.34% gain and making it by far the strongest sector tracked within the Canadian sleeve. This divergence between materials and energy, moving in opposite directions by a combined spread of more than 10 percentage points, is shaping the Canada sleeve's return more than the index-level number suggests.

  • 03

    XEQT at 52-week high in early trading

    At $43.06, XEQT is trading within one cent of its 52-week high of $43.07, a level that had not been reached since the prior peak. A long-term holder sitting 29% above the 52-week low has recovered and then some from whatever drawdowns the past year included, and the fund's current setup reflects genuine breadth: all four sleeves are advancing in the same session.

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