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Close Edition. Friday, May 15, 2026

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$43.19
-1.31%

Headline

Oil-driven inflation fears pull XEQT 1.31% lower in a global retreat.

A surge in WTI crude oil past $101 fanned inflation fears and pushed global bond yields sharply higher, drawing every XEQT sleeve into the red on Friday. The U.S. sleeve was the largest single drag, contributing -0.52 percentage points as technology, industrials, and consumer discretionary all fell more than 1.75%. Emerging markets posted the session's steepest sleeve-level loss at -3.14%, amplified by steep declines in South Korean and Taiwan-related equities. The -1.31% move was 2.1 times the fund's recent 20-day average swing, making it an unambiguously sharp session even against a year-to-date return that remains solidly positive at +7.53%.

How large is today's move?

Notable day · Today's -1.31% move is 2.1× 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

    25.23% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    -1.19% -0.30 pts from XEQT

    Canadian materials dominated the sleeve's story, falling 6.0% and subtracting more than 1.14 percentage points within the sleeve, consistent with gold's 3.06% decline on the session. Energy was the sole counterweight, rising 1.96% as crude's advance lifted producers, partially offsetting the materials damage. Without that energy offset, the sleeve's loss would have been considerably steeper than the -1.19% it recorded.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    45.36% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    -1.15% -0.52 pts from XEQT

    Technology was the sleeve's heaviest weight, off 1.76% and accounting for the largest share of the U.S. sleeve's -1.15% decline. Industrials and consumer discretionary fell at nearly the same pace, while U.S. energy was a rare positive, rising 2.35% in line with crude's move. The session broke a run of strong U.S. equity performance, consistent with the broader reset that rising Treasury yields and inflation concerns triggered across risk assets.

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  • Intl Developed

    24.36% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    -1.48% -0.36 pts from XEQT

    Europe accounted for the bulk of the sleeve's -1.48% loss, with the U.K. falling 2.27% and Germany and France each dropping more than 1.9%, as inflation fears and rising yields hit continental markets for their sharpest session since late March. Japan, the sleeve's largest single country exposure, declined 1.12%, a comparatively contained move that provided no meaningful buffer against European weakness.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    4.96% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    -3.14% -0.16 pts from XEQT

    South Korean equities fell 6.12% within the tracked EM exposures, the session's most severe single-country move, as foreign investors continued reducing positions after the benchmark briefly touched a historic milestone early in the day. Taiwan-related equities declined 4.40%, and China fell 2.51%, leaving the sleeve with no meaningful offset and a -3.14% loss that contributed -0.16 percentage points to XEQT despite the sleeve's relatively small 4.96% weight.

    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 session of this magnitude earns attention, but the fund's positioning tells a more measured story: XEQT sits 1.5% below its 52-week high and still carries a +7.53% year-to-date gain. The breadth of the decline, every sleeve lower, every major geography weaker, reflects a shared macro repricing rather than structural damage to any particular holding. Energy's strength on both sides of the border was a genuine counterweight within a difficult day. For a fund holding roughly 9,800 securities across four geographies, a single session reset of this kind is precisely the noise that a multi-decade horizon is designed to absorb.

Signals

  • 01

    WTI crude above $101 triggers bond rout

    WTI crude oil, a benchmark for global energy costs and a leading input into inflation expectations, rose 4.35% to $101.14, pushing the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield up 3.0% to 4.59% and pressuring equity valuations across every sleeve. For an XEQT holder, the pattern is worth watching: if yields remain elevated, rate-sensitive sectors and long-duration growth equities, which represent a substantial share of the U.S. sleeve, face a persistent headwind that Friday's session began to price in.

  • 02

    Emerging markets punished despite small weight

    The EM sleeve was only 4.96% of XEQT yet delivered the session's worst sleeve return at -3.14%, driven by South Korean equities falling more than 6% and Taiwan-related equities dropping 4.40% among the tracked exposures. The concentration of EM weight in technology-adjacent markets means that when global risk appetite contracts sharply, this sleeve can produce outsized sleeve-level losses relative to its contribution, as it did here with -0.16 percentage points to XEQT.

  • 03

    Gold falls as copper sinks; materials hit hard

    Gold, which often acts as a store of value in periods of stress but can decline when real interest rates rise sharply, fell 3.06%, while copper, sensitive to global industrial demand, dropped 4.99%, together applying severe pressure on Canadian materials, the sector that fell 6.0% and was the single largest detractor within the Canada sleeve. The divergence between Canadian materials and Canadian energy on the same day illustrates how commodity-specific the sleeve's swings can be, a pattern long-term holders benefit from understanding when reading sharp Canadian sleeve moves.

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