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Midday Edition. Wednesday, May 13, 2026

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$43.50
+0.30%

Headline

South Korea surges again, carrying XEQT to its 52-week high.

XEQT is trading at $43.50 at midday, up 0.30% and brushing its 52-week high of $43.51. The session's defining tension sits between a sharp decline in Canada, which is subtracting 0.16 percentage points, and strength elsewhere: the U.S. sleeve is contributing 0.22 pp, international developed markets 0.11 pp, and an outsized emerging markets rally adding 0.10 pp. Semiconductor-linked optimism surrounding President Trump's visit to China appears consistent with the broad lift in Asian equity markets tracked here.

How large is this afternoon's move?

Typical day · This afternoon's +0.30% move is 0.5× 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

    25.47% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    -0.64% -0.16 pts from XEQT

    XIC is down 0.64%, the only sleeve in the red and the session's clearest drag. Technology is the steepest decliner among tracked Canadian sectors, falling 1.71%, while financials are off 0.74% and materials 0.64%. The losses are broad-based across the four largest sectors, consistent with the S&P/TSX composite sitting down more than 200 points at midday.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    44.94% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    +0.48% +0.22 pts to XEQT

    The U.S. sleeve is up 0.48%, with a notable split beneath the surface: technology is advancing 0.88% and communication services 0.73%, together more than offsetting a 1.04% decline in financials. Hotter producer price data has reinforced expectations that the Federal Reserve will hold rates higher for longer, which may be weighing on rate-sensitive financials even as AI-linked technology names push higher.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.47% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    +0.44% +0.11 pts to XEQT

    XEF is up 0.44%, lifted primarily by Japan, which rose 1.11% and contributed 0.28 percentage points within the sleeve. The Netherlands added 1.74% and the UK 0.52%, while Australia slipped 0.65%. European markets are broadly flat to slightly lower, leaving Japan as the clear driver of the sleeve's gain.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    4.89% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    +2.00% +0.10 pts to XEQT

    XEC is up 2.00%, the strongest sleeve of the session by a wide margin. South Korean equities surged 5.39% among the markets tracked, reversing early sharp losses as domestic retail buyers absorbed heavy foreign selling in chip-related names. China-related equities climbed 2.67% and Taiwan-linked equities 1.02%, all broadly consistent with optimism around Trump-Xi trade discussions and semiconductor policy.

    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.

The Hold Line

Touching a 52-week high while Canada is declining 0.64% is a useful reminder of what geographic diversification actually does in practice: three sleeves can offset one struggling market without requiring any intervention. The YTD return of 8.32% and a 3-month gain of 5.40% reflect a portfolio that has compounded steadily through a range of conditions. A session where the fund reaches a new high on a below-average move of 0.30% is not a moment to reassess the strategy; it is evidence that the structure is doing its job.

Signals

  • 01

    South Korea's intraday reversal, magnified

    South Korean equities tracked here swung from an early decline of as much as 3.2% to a gain of 5.39% as domestic retail investors absorbed a wave of foreign selling in chip shares, producing the largest single-country contribution of any sleeve this session. For an XEQT holder, this illustrates how a small sleeve weight of roughly 1% of the fund can still generate meaningful point-in-time noise, and why the fund's broad diversification caps the damage or amplification from any one market's daily drama.

  • 02

    Inflation data splits U.S. sectors sharply

    Hotter-than-expected producer price data has driven a visible divergence within the U.S. sleeve: financials are down 1.04% while technology is up 0.88%, with the gap suggesting markets are pricing a longer hold from the Federal Reserve as a headwind for banks but not for growth-oriented technology names. The 10-year Treasury yield, a benchmark for borrowing costs across the economy, is up 0.36% to 4.48%, reinforcing that the rate environment remains a live variable shaping sector returns within the sleeve.

  • 03

    XEQT brushes its 52-week high

    At $43.50, XEQT is a single cent below its 52-week high of $43.51, reaching this level on a day when its move is roughly half the recent 20-session average absolute swing of 0.59%. The fund's YTD gain of 8.32% has been built largely without relying on a single dramatic session, and the proximity to the high on a calm day reflects the cumulative effect of consistent, broad-based compounding across all four sleeves.

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