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Midday Edition. Monday, June 1, 2026

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$44.62
+0.27%

Headline

U.S. technology and a surging Northeast Asian rally push XEQT 0.27% higher at midday.

XEQT is trading at $44.62 at midday, lifted by two distinct forces: U.S. technology posting a strong session among tracked sectors, and a sharp rally in South Korean and Taiwanese equities that has made the emerging markets sleeve the second-largest contributor to today's gain. The U.S. sleeve is up 0.42%, accounting for roughly 0.19 percentage points of XEQT's move, while the emerging markets sleeve has added another 0.11 percentage points despite representing less than 5% of the fund. International developed markets are the lone drag, shaving about 0.06 percentage points from the total as European equities retreat.

How large is this afternoon's move?

Typical day · This afternoon's +0.27% move is 0.4× 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

    25.15% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    +0.11% +0.03 pts to XEQT

    Canada's sleeve is up a modest 0.11%, but the composition is striking. Canadian information technology has risen 5.21% and Canadian energy is up 2.19%, together generating more than 0.75 percentage points of within-sleeve lift. Both financials and materials are pulling in the opposite direction, with materials down 1.47% and financials off 0.90%, nearly offsetting those gains. WTI crude oil is up 7.49% on the session, consistent with the strength in energy producers, while gold's 2.00% decline may be weighing on materials.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    45.37% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    +0.42% +0.19 pts to XEQT

    The U.S. sleeve's 0.42% gain rests almost entirely on technology, which is up 2.47% among tracked sectors and contributing nearly 0.90 percentage points at the sleeve level. Five of the seven tracked sectors are negative, with consumer discretionary down 2.06% and health care off 1.41%, meaning breadth is narrow even as the headline number holds up. AI-related enthusiasm, including Anthropic's confidential SEC filing for a Wall Street debut, appears to be concentrating gains in the technology space.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.37% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    -0.24% -0.06 pts from XEQT

    XEF.TO is down 0.24%, with Switzerland off 1.85% and Sweden down 1.63% among the sharpest declines in the tracked exposures. European markets are retreating broadly, with the UK, France, and Spain all lower, consistent with reports that renewed Middle East tensions are weighing on sentiment across the region. Germany and the Netherlands are marginally positive but insufficient to offset the broader pullback.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    4.99% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    +2.22% +0.11 pts to XEQT

    XEC.TO is up 2.22%, the strongest sleeve return of the session by a wide margin, driven by South Korea rising 4.56% and Taiwan gaining 3.90% among the tracked exposures. South Korea's surge prompted the Korea Exchange to activate a program-trading halt after a sharp technology-led rally. Local investors piling into TSMC shares in Taipei on AI optimism have helped narrow the valuation gap with its U.S.-listed shares, reinforcing momentum across both markets. India and South Africa are both lower, but the combined weight of South Korea and Taiwan in the sleeve is sufficient to overwhelm that drag.

    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

The session illustrates how sharply returns can concentrate in a small number of sectors or countries even when the fund-level move appears calm. Technology is doing heavy lifting in both the U.S. and Northeast Asian sleeves, while most other segments are flat to lower. For a passive holder, that concentration is a feature of how market-cap-weighted indexes work, not a signal to act on. A 0.27% gain on a day when five of seven U.S. sectors tracked are negative reflects the structural diversification of XEQT across geographies, even when sector breadth within a sleeve is thin.

Signals

  • 01

    Northeast Asian AI surge lifts EM sleeve

    South Korean and Taiwanese equities are posting their strongest single-session gains among the tracked emerging markets exposures, with South Korea up 4.56% and Taiwan up 3.90%, together contributing more than two percentage points at the EM sleeve level. A fund with less than 5% in emerging markets is still receiving a meaningful 0.11 percentage point lift from that sleeve, demonstrating that even a small allocation can punch above its weight when a single regional theme is strong.

  • 02

    Canada: energy and tech split the sleeve

    Canadian energy and information technology are together generating significant within-sleeve gains, while financials and materials are both declining sharply, producing a net sleeve return of only 0.11% despite significant underlying movement. This internal tug-of-war, likely connected to crude oil's 7.49% surge and gold's 2.00% decline, means the Canada sleeve is masking more volatility than its flat headline suggests.

  • 03

    WTI crude surges; mixed global read

    WTI crude oil, a measure of global energy demand and geopolitical risk priced in the U.S. benchmark market, is up 7.49% on the session, its sharpest move in recent weeks. Canadian and U.S. energy producers are both responding positively, but the same tensions appear to be weighing on European equities, creating a split outcome across XEQT's sleeves that is worth tracking into the afternoon.

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