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Close Edition. Thursday, May 7, 2026

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$42.97
-0.67%

Headline

European equities define the session as XEQT slips 0.67%.

Thursday's decline in XEQT was shaped almost entirely by weakness in international developed markets, which contributed -0.38 percentage points to the fund's -0.67% close. The U.S. sleeve added a further -0.23 pp drag, while Canada and emerging markets played smaller supporting roles on the downside. All four sleeves closed in the red, producing a broad but not severe session loss that sits just modestly above the recent 20-day average daily move of 0.59%.

How large is today's move?

Typical day · Today's -0.67% move is 1.1× 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

    25.32% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    -0.39% -0.10 pts from XEQT

    Canada was the session's shallowest detractor, falling 0.39% for an estimated -0.10 pp contribution. Energy and industrials led losses among the sectors tracked, while Canadian information technology rose 2.00%, the only meaningful offset within the sleeve.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    44.16% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    -0.51% -0.23 pts from XEQT

    The U.S. sleeve declined 0.51%, with industrials and energy among the steepest drops in tracked sectors. Technology, the sleeve's largest tracked weight, fell a contained 0.20%, limiting the damage. Communication services and consumer discretionary were nearly flat.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.74% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    -1.55% -0.38 pts from XEQT

    International developed markets were the session's defining weight, falling 1.55% for a -0.38 pp contribution to XEQT. Among the markets tracked, UK equities slid 2.47%, pressured in part by oil majors Shell and BP as crude softened, while French and Swiss equities each dropped more than 2.2%. Japan, the sleeve's largest single country weight, fell a more measured 0.75%.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    5.54% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    -0.98% -0.05 pts from XEQT

    Emerging markets fell 0.98%, contributing -0.05 pp to XEQT given the sleeve's modest 5.54% weight. South Korean equities dropped 2.87%, the sharpest single-country move among tracked exposures, while Brazil declined 2.76%. Taiwan and China each fell less than 0.7%, providing a partial cushion.

    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.

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The Hold Line

A decline concentrated in one sleeve, international developed markets accounting for more than half of XEQT's total move, is a reminder of how geographic spread shapes daily outcomes in ways that diversify the source of noise as much as the source of return. XEQT's YTD gain of 7.00% and one-month return of 5.86% remain the more relevant frame. The fund sits only 0.9% below its 52-week high, and a session of this magnitude is well within the ordinary range of recent trading.

Signals

  • 01

    Europe drags with unusual depth

    Among the markets tracked within the international developed sleeve, the four largest European exposures each fell more than 2.2%, an unusually tight cluster of heavy losses that made the sleeve the session's dominant detractor by a wide margin. For an XEQT holder, Europe's weight of roughly a quarter of the fund means days like this carry real impact, even when North America holds up relatively well.

  • 02

    10-year yield rise, energy sectors fall

    The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield, a benchmark rate that influences borrowing costs and the relative appeal of equities, rose 0.83% to 4.39%, while U.S. energy fell 1.84% and Canadian energy fell 1.28% among tracked sectors despite crude oil moving only marginally lower. Rate-sensitive pressure on capital-intensive sectors may be contributing to the breadth of weakness across both North American sleeves.

  • 03

    South Korea sharpest EM drag

    South Korean equities fell 2.87%, the steepest move among all tracked emerging market exposures and a notable divergence from the more muted declines in Taiwan and China. Given South Korea's roughly 20% weight within the emerging markets sleeve, this single-country move accounted for most of the sleeve's loss, even as XEC.TO's overall contribution to XEQT remained small.

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