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Midday Edition. Friday, May 29, 2026

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$44.51
+0.34%

Headline

All four XEQT sleeves advance at midday as Iran ceasefire optimism lifts global equities.

XEQT is up 0.34% at $44.51 through midday Friday, with every regional sleeve in positive territory as renewed hopes for a U.S.-Iran ceasefire extension lift sentiment across global markets. The U.S. sleeve is contributing the most, up 0.40% and adding 0.18 percentage points to the fund, led by a sharp rise in technology stocks. International developed markets are the session's second-largest contributor at +0.53%, while Canada adds modestly at +0.27%. Crude oil is down 2.50% on the peace optimism, a dynamic that weighs on energy producers but appears to be broadly offset by the risk-on tone elsewhere.

How large is this afternoon's move?

Typical day · This afternoon's +0.34% 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

    25.09% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    +0.27% +0.07 pts to XEQT

    Canada's sleeve is up 0.27%, a gain built on a sharp divergence beneath the surface. Canadian information technology has surged 4.66% among the sectors tracked, contributing roughly +0.32 pp within the sleeve, while materials have added another +0.29 pp on the back of a 1.64% rise. Those gains are substantially offset by energy, which is down 1.82%, consistent with crude oil's 2.50% decline on ceasefire optimism, and financials, off 0.46%.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    45.42% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    +0.40% +0.18 pts to XEQT

    The U.S. sleeve's 0.40% gain rests heavily on technology, which is up 1.99% and contributing +0.71 pp within the covered sectors, more than compensating for declines across health care, communication services, consumer staples, and energy. Financials are adding modest support at +0.80%. Dell's record AI server results are among the factors cited for the technology strength.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.39% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    +0.53% +0.13 pts to XEQT

    The international developed sleeve leads the session in percentage terms at +0.53%, with breadth across the markets represented here. Australia is up 1.21% among the areas tracked, with Japanese equities adding 0.46% and Switzerland 0.73%. Middle East peace hopes and AI-driven enthusiasm are cited as drivers for both Australian and Japanese markets, with European shares also advancing on the ceasefire narrative.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    5.01% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    +0.09% +0.00 pts to XEQT

    Emerging markets are barely positive at +0.09%, contributing less than 0.01 pp to XEQT. Among the areas tracked, Taiwan and China are both up roughly 0.54-0.55%, providing the sleeve's support. Latin American markets are pulling in the opposite direction, with Brazil and Mexico each falling more than 1%, limiting the sleeve's participation in the day's broader advance.

    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

Four positive sleeves on a single session is worth noting, but today's composition tells a more nuanced story: the U.S. and international developed sleeves are doing the work, while Canada's headline gain masks a significant tug-of-war between technology and energy. For a fund structured to hold all of this simultaneously, that internal friction is not a flaw but a feature. With XEQT up 11.58% year-to-date and today's move running at roughly half the recent daily average in magnitude, this is a session that consolidates rather than defines.

Signals

  • 01

    Oil drop splits Canadian sectors

    WTI crude is down 2.50% on Iran ceasefire optimism, pressing Canadian energy 1.82% lower even as the broader TSX advances, a direct contrast with Canadian information technology's 4.66% rise among the sectors tracked. For an XEQT holder, the energy drag on the Canadian sleeve is absorbed by the technology and materials offsets within the same sleeve, leaving the net contribution positive but modest at +0.07 pp.

  • 02

    Technology concentration in U.S. sleeve

    U.S. technology accounts for the single largest within-sleeve contribution tracked across all four sleeves today, at +0.71 pp, while six other U.S. sectors are negative. The U.S. sleeve's overall 0.40% gain is effectively a technology story, with the rest of the covered sectors in aggregate acting as a drag.

  • 03

    VIX slides as breadth widens globally

    The VIX, a measure of implied volatility in U.S. equities that tends to fall when investor risk appetite rises, is down 3.18% to 15.24, a level consistent with the all-positive sleeve breadth seen in XEQT at midday. A sustained low-VIX environment does not eliminate downside risk, but it does reflect the relatively settled conditions that have accompanied XEQT's 4.67% rolling-month gain.

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