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Midday Edition. Friday, June 5, 2026

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$44.21
-1.89%

Headline

A tech-driven selloff pulls XEQT down 1.89% at midday as every sleeve declines.

XEQT is trading at $44.21 at midday, a loss of 1.89% that is running at three times the fund's recent average daily move. All four regional sleeves are lower, with the U.S. contributing the largest drag at -0.73 percentage points, followed by Canada at -0.45 pp. A strong May jobs report has lifted bond yields and boosted expectations for higher interest rates, amplifying a rotation away from technology stocks that has spread across global markets.

How large is this afternoon's move?

Substantial move · This afternoon's -1.89% move is 3.0× 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
    -1.77% -0.45 pts from XEQT

    The TSX is down more than 500 points in late-morning trading, with materials and technology sectors accounting for the bulk of the damage. Canadian materials have fallen 6.74% so far in the session, consistent with sharp drops in both gold and copper, while information technology is off 3.69%. Canadian financials, the largest sector in the sleeve, are essentially flat at +0.03%, limiting the overall sleeve loss to -1.77%.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    45.34% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    -1.60% -0.73 pts from XEQT

    U.S. technology is down 5.09% among the sectors tracked, contributing the most concentrated drag within the sleeve as the rotation out of AI-related names continues. Health care and consumer staples are each up more than 1.5%, offering partial offsets, but the breadth of selling in the growth-oriented sectors has been enough to pull the overall U.S. sleeve to -1.60%.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.29% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    -1.54% -0.37 pts from XEQT

    Japan is the largest single drag among the international developed markets tracked, falling 2.31%, while Australia and the Netherlands are both down more than 2.9%. The sleeve is off 1.54% and contributing -0.37 pp to XEQT.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    5.00% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    -4.74% -0.24 pts from XEQT

    South Korean equities have fallen 10.27% among the instruments tracked, following a sharp selloff in semiconductor stocks on Wall Street after disappointing earnings from Broadcom. Taiwan-related equities are down 5.89% in the areas covered, reinforcing the chip-sector theme. The emerging markets sleeve has declined 4.74%, contributing -0.24 pp despite representing only 5% of XEQT.

    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 session of this magnitude, three times the recent average move, demands proportion rather than alarm. The selling is concentrated in technology and semiconductor-exposed markets, sectors that have driven much of XEQT's 10.83% gain so far this year. Days like this one reveal the cost of that exposure as well as its rewards. The fund remains well above its 52-week low, and a single sharp session does not erase the cumulative ground built since January.

Signals

  • 01

    VIX surges as tech rout widens

    The VIX, a measure of expected near-term volatility in U.S. equities derived from options pricing, has jumped 16.75% to 18.75, a level consistent with the breadth of declines across all four XEQT sleeves simultaneously. For a long-term holder, a VIX move of this size on a day when every sleeve is lower confirms the selling is risk-driven and broad, rather than isolated to a single region.

  • 02

    Materials and gold decline sharply

    Gold is down 3.36% and copper 4.01%, a paired drop in commodity prices that goes a long way toward explaining the 6.74% decline in Canadian materials, the worst-performing tracked sector in the entire fund. Rising 10-year Treasury yields, up 1.36% to 4.54%, are consistent with pressure on gold as the opportunity cost of holding the non-yielding metal increases.

  • 03

    Emerging markets bear outsized loss

    At -4.74%, the emerging markets sleeve is falling at roughly 2.5 times the rate of any other sleeve, despite representing only 5% of XEQT. South Korean equities account for most of that severity, with semiconductor names leading the selloff after Broadcom's earnings disappointed investors. The concentrated semiconductor exposure within the EM sleeve means that AI-cycle sentiment shifts land with unusual force on this small but volatile allocation.

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