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Midday Edition. Wednesday, May 20, 2026

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$43.45
+1.12%

Headline

All four sleeves are rising as XEQT climbs 1.12% at midday.

XEQT is trading at $43.45 midway through Wednesday's session, up 1.12%, nearly twice the fund's recent daily average move. The advance is broad-based, with every sleeve contributing positively: the U.S. sleeve leads in absolute contribution at +0.39 percentage points, followed closely by international developed markets at +0.32 pp and Canada at +0.31 pp. A sharp decline in WTI crude oil, down 5.77% to $98.14, and a notable easing in the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield, off 1.74% to 4.59%, appear consistent with the simultaneous strength in equities across geographies.

How large is this afternoon's move?

Larger-than-usual day · This afternoon's +1.12% move is 1.8× 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

    25.32% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    +1.24% +0.31 pts to XEQT

    The S&P/TSX is up sharply, with XIC.TO gaining 1.24% so far. Materials are the standout, rising 2.45% and contributing the most within the sleeve, supported by a 0.53% gain in gold. Financials added another 0.58 percentage points of within-sleeve lift. Energy is the lone detractor, falling 2.02%, consistent with the steep oil price drop, and subtracting 0.37 pp from the sleeve's otherwise strong showing.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    45.16% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    +0.86% +0.39 pts to XEQT

    The U.S. sleeve is up 0.86%, driven almost entirely by technology, which has risen 1.68% and contributed +0.59 pp within the sleeve, with chip stocks rebounding ahead of Nvidia's quarterly results. Consumer discretionary and industrials are also up meaningfully. Energy and health care are negative, with U.S. energy off 1.93%, mirroring the crude oil slide.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.45% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    +1.32% +0.32 pts to XEQT

    XEF.TO is the session's strongest sleeve in percentage terms, up 1.32%. European markets are contributing broadly: France is up 2.01%, Germany 1.78%, and the Netherlands 2.23% among the markets tracked. Japan has gained 0.70%, lagging the European contingent but still adding positively. The easing in U.S. Treasury yields appears consistent with the lift across rate-sensitive developed markets.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    4.83% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    +1.40% +0.07 pts to XEQT

    XEC.TO is up 1.40%, the strongest sleeve on a percentage basis, though its 4.83% weight limits its contribution to XEQT at +0.07 pp. South Korean equities have advanced 2.46% and Taiwanese equities 1.83% among the markets tracked, together driving most of the sleeve's gain. Notably, Samsung Electronics shares fell roughly 3% after wage talks with its union collapsed and a strike was announced for Thursday, yet the South Korean market as a whole is still advancing in this session.

    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

A day when every sleeve rises and the fund gains more than 1% is worth appreciating in context: XEQT is now within 0.9% of its 52-week high of $43.85, and the YTD return stands at +8.92%. The bond market's partial easing and crude oil's sharp pullback have, at least for this session, removed two sources of pressure that had weighed on equities in recent weeks. For a long-term holder, the composition of the gain matters as much as its size: broad participation across four geographies is a sturdier foundation than a move carried by a single sleeve.

Signals

  • 01

    Crude oil drop benefits non-energy sectors

    WTI crude, a benchmark for global oil prices, is down 5.77% to $98.14, which is weighing on Canadian and U.S. energy sectors while simultaneously reducing input cost pressure across the broader market. For an XEQT holder, the net effect is positive: energy's drag on both Canada and the U.S. sleeve is more than offset by gains in every other tracked sector, illustrating how the fund's diversification across sectors absorbs commodity-specific stress.

  • 02

    Treasury yield decline supports equity breadth

    The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield, a reference rate that sets the cost of long-term borrowing and competes with equities for capital, has fallen 1.74% to 4.59%, consistent with the simultaneous strength in rate-sensitive sectors and the broad advance across geographies. XEQT's international developed sleeve, which includes financials and other yield-sensitive segments, is posting its largest single-day gain in the recent record, suggesting the yield move is doing real work across the portfolio.

  • 03

    Samsung strike clouds South Korea's advance

    More than 47,000 Samsung Electronics workers are set to strike Thursday after wage negotiations collapsed, sending Samsung shares down roughly 3% even as South Korean equities broadly advanced 2.46% among the markets tracked in the emerging markets sleeve. For an XEQT holder, the divergence is a reminder that index-level returns can mask significant stock-specific stress; the sleeve's XEC.TO return remains the authoritative measure of what XEQT actually holds.

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