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Close Edition. Wednesday, June 3, 2026

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$44.69
-0.56%

Headline

Canada's materials and tech losses pull XEQT down 0.56% as all four sleeves retreat.

A broad decline across all four sleeves pushed XEQT to $44.69, with Canada supplying roughly half the fund's total loss. The TSX pulled back sharply from recent record highs as technology and base metals shares slid, dragging the Canadian sleeve down 1.05%. The U.S. sleeve held up comparatively well, off just 0.21%, while rising oil prices lifted energy names on both sides of the border even as most sectors moved lower.

How large is today's move?

Typical day · Today's -0.56% move is 0.8× 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

    25.27% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    -1.05% -0.26 pts from XEQT

    The Canadian sleeve fell 1.05%, contributing -0.265 pp to XEQT and accounting for the session's clearest drag. Among the sectors tracked, materials dropped 3.13% and information technology fell 3.62%, together responsible for the bulk of the sleeve's loss. Energy was the sole meaningful offset, rising 1.17% in line with WTI crude's advance toward $96.40, consistent with rising commodity prices benefiting Canadian producers.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    45.17% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    -0.21% -0.09 pts from XEQT

    The U.S. sleeve declined 0.21%, contributing -0.093 pp. Among the sectors tracked, technology, financials, and communication services all lost more than 1%, while health care rose 0.79% and energy gained 1.29%. Oil prices climbing back toward $100 a barrel weighed on sentiment even as U.S. markets held closer to their record highs than other regions.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.22% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    -0.41% -0.10 pts from XEQT

    XEF.TO fell 0.41%, contributing -0.099 pp. European markets were broadly weaker among the countries tracked, with Germany down 1.84%, Switzerland off 1.39%, France lower by 1.19%, the UK down 1.09%, and Australia declining 1.12%. Japan was the lone positive, rising 0.38% and partially offsetting the European losses given its roughly 25% weight in the sleeve.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    5.10% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    -0.88% -0.05 pts from XEQT

    XEC.TO declined 0.88%, contributing -0.045 pp, the smallest absolute drag on XEQT. Within the tracked exposures, China fell 2.12%, Brazil dropped 3.19%, South Africa lost 2.20%, and India was off 1.39%. South Korea slipped 0.73% despite Goldman Sachs lifting its Kospi target to 12,000 and upgrading Taiwan to buy, underscoring that bullish analyst revisions did not arrest Wednesday's broader retreat.

    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.

The Hold Line

Breadth matters here. A session in which all four sleeves move in the same direction, and not one compensates for another, is worth noting without alarm. At 0.56%, the decline is below the recent 20-day average absolute move of 0.68%, making it a mild day by recent standards. The fund's one-month return of 5.39% reflects how much ground was built before this pullback, and a single down day changes none of that underlying trajectory. Copper's 2.90% drop and gold's 1.26% decline together help explain why Canadian materials were the sharpest source of pain, a sector-specific story rather than a signal about the fund's construction.

Signals

  • 01

    Canadian materials lead sleeve lower

    Materials fell 3.13% within the Canada sleeve, the steepest tracked sector loss of the session, while gold dropped 1.26% and copper fell 2.90%, consistent with a broad commodity pullback weighing on mining-linked names. For an XEQT holder, Canada's 25% sleeve weight means concentrated sector weakness there has an outsized effect relative to an equivalent move in a smaller sleeve.

  • 02

    Oil surge splits energy from broad market

    WTI crude rose 2.82% to $96.40, lifting Canadian energy 1.17% and U.S. energy 1.29% even as most other sectors declined across multiple sleeves. This divergence is worth watching: rising oil prices supported energy producers but may have added to broader cost-of-business concerns that weighed on other sectors, particularly technology and consumer names.

  • 03

    Currency softens U.S. sleeve impact

    The Canadian dollar weakened 0.44% against the U.S. dollar, which translated ITOT's 0.73% USD loss into a smaller CAD-adjusted decline and helped keep the U.S. sleeve's total return at just -0.21%. For a Canadian-dollar-denominated fund, a weaker loonie partially cushions losses in USD-priced assets, a relationship that ran in XEQT holders' favour on a down day.

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