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Midday Edition. Thursday, May 14, 2026

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$43.77
+0.60%

Headline

Nvidia's surge and a TSX rally push XEQT within reach of its 52-week high.

XEQT is up 0.60% in midday trading, sitting at $43.77 and within 0.2% of its 52-week high of $43.85. The United States sleeve is carrying the bulk of the advance, contributing 0.39 percentage points on the strength of a sharp move in U.S. technology names, with Nvidia's jump on the session helping lift the sector. Canada is adding a further 0.17 percentage points, while international developed markets are flat and emerging markets are contributing a marginal 0.01 percentage points despite sharp cross-currents beneath the surface.

How large is this afternoon's move?

Typical day · This afternoon's +0.60% move is 1.0× 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

    25.21% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    +0.69% +0.17 pts to XEQT

    Canadian industrials and technology are the standout movers among the sectors tracked, up 1.86% and 1.79% respectively, with financials and energy also contributing positively. Materials are the lone detractor, falling 1.35%, consistent with gold pulling back 0.52% on the session. The TSX gain is broad-based across cyclicals, with financials accounting for the largest within-sleeve contribution given their 33% weight.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    44.98% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    +0.87% +0.39 pts to XEQT

    U.S. technology is doing the heavy lifting, rising 1.55% and contributing over half a percentage point to the U.S. sleeve on its own. The remaining sectors tracked are clustered in modest positive territory, with health care the only slight detractor at -0.03%. The blended sleeve return of 0.87% makes the United States the single largest contributor to XEQT's gain so far.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.54% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    +0.00% +0.00 pts to XEQT

    The international developed sleeve is effectively unchanged on the session, masking a sharp internal split. Japan is down 1.00% among the markets tracked, dragging against gains in the Netherlands, Germany, and Australia. European markets are holding modest positive ground, but Japan's outsized weight at roughly a quarter of the sleeve is neutralizing those advances.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    4.98% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    +0.23% +0.01 pts to XEQT

    China-related equities are down 2.64% among the markets tracked, a sharp move that would have weighed heavily on the sleeve. South Korea and Taiwan are each up more than 0.75%, and their combined weight is more than offsetting China's drag, leaving the sleeve with a narrow 0.23% gain. The Trump-Xi summit appears to be generating mixed reactions across the region, with uncertainty tempering any broad rally.

    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

At $43.77, XEQT is 0.2% from a new 52-week high, and the year-to-date return has reached 8.99% with the one-month figure at 3.52%. The structure of this session is worth noting: the gain is concentrated in the U.S. and Canada, which together account for more than 70% of the fund, while the international and emerging sleeves are contributing little net. For a long-term holder, that kind of leadership concentration is normal across any given session; the fund's geographic breadth is what smooths returns over full cycles, not single afternoons.

Signals

  • 01

    U.S. tech dominates sleeve contribution

    U.S. technology accounts for a within-sleeve contribution of 0.54 percentage points on its own, more than the entire Canada sleeve's contribution to XEQT. For an XEQT holder, this underscores how heavily a single sector can shape the fund's daily direction given U.S. technology's weight in the portfolio's largest sleeve.

  • 02

    Gold weighs on Canadian materials

    Gold is down 0.52% on the session while Canadian materials have fallen 1.35%, diverging sharply from the broader TSX advance and posting the only negative sector reading in the Canada sleeve. This split between materials and the rest of Canada's market is a reminder that commodity price moves can cut against an otherwise constructive domestic session.

  • 03

    China selloff absorbed by EM peers

    Among the emerging markets tracked, China-related equities are off 2.64%, a move that in isolation would have been a meaningful drag on the sleeve, but South Korea and Taiwan together are contributing enough to leave the sleeve modestly positive. The net result is that XEQT's smallest sleeve is adding rather than subtracting, illustrating how EM's internal geographic diversity can cushion sharp single-country moves.

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