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Midday Edition. Monday, May 11, 2026

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$43.41
+0.07%

Headline

Europe softens a strong session for Canada and the U.S.

XEQT is up 0.07% through the first half of trading, sitting just 0.2% below its 52-week high as two sleeves advance and two decline. Canada and the United States are both positive, contributing a combined +0.13 pp, while international developed markets are pulling in the opposite direction at -0.10 pp. The net result is a fund that is barely moving despite genuine underlying divergence across its four sleeves.

How large is this afternoon's move?

Typical day · This afternoon's +0.07% move is 0.1× 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

    25.31% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    +0.17% +0.04 pts to XEQT

    The Canadian sleeve is up 0.17%, with materials and energy doing most of the work. Materials have risen 2.80% among the sectors tracked, consistent with copper's 2.65% advance, while energy is up 1.49% as WTI crude climbs through $99. Those two sectors together are generating enough lift to more than offset declines in financials, information technology, and industrials elsewhere in the sleeve.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    44.95% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    +0.19% +0.08 pts to XEQT

    The U.S. sleeve is up 0.19%, its positive read driven almost entirely by technology, which has gained 1.17% and contributed +0.41 pp within the sleeve. Industrials and energy are also higher. That strength is being offset by broad weakness across communication services, consumer staples, and consumer discretionary, consistent with a session where investors are pausing after last week's record run.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.58% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    -0.42% -0.10 pts from XEQT

    International developed markets are the main drag on XEQT, with XEF.TO down 0.42% and contributing -0.10 pp. Among the countries tracked, France is the weakest, down 0.96%, with Switzerland and the Netherlands also lower. Australia, Italy, and Singapore are modestly positive but not enough to offset the European softness.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    5.04% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    -0.07% -0.00 pts from XEQT

    The emerging markets sleeve is down 0.07%, a modest decline that masks sharp internal divergence. South Korean equities are up 1.46% and Taiwan-related equities are up 0.98% among the areas tracked, with South Korean chipmakers climbing to record highs on AI-driven momentum. India, however, is down 2.76% within the sleeve's tracked exposures, a decline large enough to nearly cancel out the gains from Northeast Asia.

    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 of 0.07% is barely a rounding error against a YTD return of 8.09% and a one-month gain of 3.60%. What is more notable is that XEQT remains within 0.2% of its 52-week high despite genuine cross-sleeve turbulence beneath the surface. The fund's geographic breadth is absorbing the India decline and the European softness without giving back the ground accumulated over recent weeks. The picture, at midday, is one of a broadly healthy portfolio absorbing stress quietly.

Signals

  • 01

    WTI crude above $99 per barrel

    WTI crude oil, which tracks the price of North American benchmark oil and directly affects energy producer earnings, is up 4.31% and trading above $99, its highest level in the recent session. For XEQT holders, the gain is showing up concretely in both the Canadian and U.S. energy sectors, which are among the few bright spots in an otherwise mixed session.

  • 02

    India decline contrasts Northeast Asia strength

    Within the emerging markets sleeve, India is down 2.76% among the areas tracked while South Korea and Taiwan-related equities are each advancing, producing a within-sleeve spread of more than four percentage points between the weakest and strongest major country exposures. The sleeve's near-flat result at -0.07% shows how XEC.TO's geographic diversification is containing what would otherwise be a more significant drag on XEQT.

  • 03

    VIX rises while equities hold ground

    The VIX, which measures the options market's expectation of near-term equity price swings, is up 4.77% to 18.01 even as XEQT and the U.S. sleeve are modestly positive, a pairing that suggests some hedging activity is underway beneath a calm surface. For a long-term XEQT holder, a VIX at 18 remains well within a historically normal range and does not alter the fund's risk profile in any meaningful way.

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