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Open Edition. Wednesday, May 13, 2026

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$43.34
-0.07%

Headline

South Korea reverses hard, lifting EM and cushioning a soft XEQT open.

XEQT was trading at $43.34, down 0.07% in early trading, with Canada the principal drag and emerging markets providing a meaningful offset. The Canada sleeve is down 0.53%, contributing roughly 14 basis points of negative pressure, while the U.S. sleeve adds a further 7 basis points of drag. Emerging markets, up 1.16% on the session so far, are supplying nearly 6 basis points of support, keeping the fund's decline narrow. International developed markets are essentially flat, contributing almost nothing in either direction.

How large is this morning's move?

Typical day · This morning'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

    25.47% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    -0.53% -0.13 pts from XEQT

    Materials and information technology are the heaviest weights on the Canadian sleeve early in the session, down 1.84% and 2.49% respectively among the sectors tracked. Financials, the largest sector at roughly a third of the sleeve, are off only 0.25%, limiting the damage. Energy is nearly flat despite WTI crude holding above $102.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    44.94% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    -0.16% -0.07 pts from XEQT

    Financials and industrials are the softer spots among the sectors tracked, while technology, the sleeve's largest component, is off a modest 0.11%. Consumer staples and health care are both in positive territory early, partially offsetting the cyclical weakness and keeping the sleeve's overall decline contained.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.47% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    +0.04% +0.01 pts to XEQT

    Japan is the standout among covered markets, up 0.90% and contributing roughly 23 basis points within the sleeve, offsetting broad softness across continental Europe and Australia. France, Sweden, and Australia are all lower among the markets tracked, but Japan's weight is large enough to pull the sleeve into fractional positive territory.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    4.89% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    +1.16% +0.06 pts to XEQT

    South Korea is driving the sleeve's advance, up 4.29% in early trading after an early sharp selloff reversed as local buyers stepped in. China is also contributing meaningfully, up 1.87% among the markets tracked, with the Trump-Xi meeting this week adding context to the positive tone across northeast Asian equities. Brazil and South Africa are softer, but their weight is insufficient to offset the northeast Asian gains.

    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

A 0.07% move is well within the ordinary range, running at roughly one-tenth of XEQT's recent average daily swing. The fund sits just 0.4% below its 52-week high, and the YTD return stands at 7.92%. What is notable early in this session is that the smallest sleeve by weight, emerging markets, is doing the most work to cushion the broader fund, a reminder that geographic breadth can contribute even from an unexpected corner of the portfolio.

Signals

  • 01

    South Korea's intraday reversal anchors EM

    South Korean equities swung from an early decline of more than 3% to a gain of 4.29% among the markets tracked, as domestic retail buying absorbed a wave of foreign selling concentrated in chip-related shares. For an XEQT holder, the episode illustrates that the EM sleeve's contribution can shift materially within a single session, and that its 4.89% weight can still move the fund by several basis points when the underlying move is large enough.

  • 02

    Copper signals commodity-sector tension

    Copper, a metal whose price is often read as a gauge of industrial demand expectations, is up 2.08% this morning, yet Canadian materials equities are the weakest tracked sector in the Canada sleeve, off 1.84%. The divergence between a rising industrial metal and falling materials stocks is worth watching, as it may reflect stock-specific or currency-driven factors rather than a broad commodity signal.

  • 03

    Defensive rotation visible in two sleeves

    Consumer staples are positive in both the U.S. and Canadian sleeves while cyclical sectors, including financials, industrials, and materials, are softer across covered exposures, a pattern consistent with mild defensive rotation early in the session. With the VIX, a measure of expected near-term equity market swings, up 1.50% to 18.26, the early bias appears cautious even as the fund's headline move remains small.

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