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$43.88
-2.62%

Headline

A tech and AI selloff sends XEQT down 2.62% as all four sleeves fall sharply.

A strong U.S. jobs report lifted rate expectations and hit technology stocks hard, producing XEQT's worst single-session decline in recent weeks at 4.2 times its 20-day average move. All four sleeves fell in unison, with the U.S. sleeve contributing the largest drag at 1.10 percentage points, followed by Canada at 0.59 pp and international developed markets at 0.53 pp. Emerging markets added a further 0.31 pp to the decline, with South Korean equities suffering a severe AI-driven selloff that amplified the session's losses. XEQT closed at $43.88, erasing the prior session's 52-week high of $45.06 in a single day.

How large is today's move?

Substantial move · Today's -2.62% move is 4.2× 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
    -2.32% -0.59 pts from XEQT

    The TSX fell more than 800 points, with Canadian materials delivering the sharpest blow inside the sleeve, down 8.17% and contributing nearly 1.45 pp to the sleeve's internal decline. Energy shed 4.14% as WTI crude dropped 3.00%, compounding the commodity-sector pressure. Financials, which dominate the sleeve at roughly a third of its weight, were essentially flat, preventing a steeper overall loss; consumer staples rose 2.82%, adding a small offset.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    45.34% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    -2.42% -1.10 pts from XEQT

    U.S. technology fell 6.66% among the sectors tracked, accounting for the overwhelming share of the sleeve's 2.42% decline. Consumer staples and health care both gained modestly, as did financials, but those moves were far too small to offset the technology-driven damage. A strong May jobs report raised the odds of higher-for-longer interest rates, which weighed most heavily on rate-sensitive growth sectors.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.29% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    -2.20% -0.53 pts from XEQT

    The sleeve fell 2.20%, with Japan posting the steepest tracked loss at 3.62%, consistent with broader AI sentiment souring across Asian markets. The Netherlands and Australia also declined sharply, each off more than 3% among the markets covered. Germany and France each fell roughly 2%, adding to the broad-based European weakness.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    5.00% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    -6.12% -0.31 pts from XEQT

    The emerging markets sleeve fell 6.12%, its severity driven almost entirely by South Korean equities, which dropped 14.11% among the tracked exposures as foreign selling intensified and investor appetite for AI-related stocks collapsed. Taiwan-linked equities fell 7.25%, amplifying the semiconductor-sector pain. China and India declined more modestly, at 2.31% and 1.42% respectively, but offered little cushion given South Korea and Taiwan's combined 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.

The Hold Line

A session of this magnitude deserves clear-eyed context: at 4.2 times the recent daily average, this was an unusually sharp move, not a routine fluctuation. The damage was concentrated in technology and AI-adjacent equities across multiple regions simultaneously, revealing just how much of XEQT's recent gains had been carried by those exposures. The Kospi's drop, while severe in isolation, comes against a backdrop of a near-doubling of that index in 2026, which helps frame the day's losses as a reversion within an extended run rather than a structural break. XEQT's YTD return, still at 10.00% entering the session, provided meaningful cushion that a single day's move cannot fully erase.

Signals

  • 01

    VIX surges 34% on rate shock

    The VIX, which measures the market's expectation of near-term equity swings, jumped 33.94% to 21.51, the kind of single-day fear spike consistent with a repricing event rather than routine volatility. For an XEQT holder, this confirms the session's severity was broadly felt across risk assets, not concentrated in one corner of the market.

  • 02

    South Korea drives EM underperformance

    South Korean equities fell 14.11% among the tracked emerging market exposures, contributing more than 3 pp of within-sleeve drag and turning what would have been a modest EM decline into the worst single-sleeve performance of the day at 6.12%. Given that emerging markets represent 5% of XEQT, the sleeve's outsized move added 0.31 pp to the fund's loss, a meaningful contribution relative to its weight.

  • 03

    Gold and copper fall with equities

    Gold, often sought when equity markets fall sharply, declined 3.45%, while copper, sensitive to global industrial demand, dropped 4.19%. Both moves aligned with broad commodity weakness and help explain why Canadian materials fell 8.17%, far exceeding losses in other Canadian sectors and making materials the single largest drag within the Canada sleeve.

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