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Close Edition. Wednesday, July 15, 2026

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$45.11
+0.24%

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XEQT recovers from midday weakness to close up 0.24% as three sleeves advance

XEQT closed at $45.11, up 0.24% after spending much of the morning in negative territory. A midday recovery gathered pace through the afternoon, lifting three of four sleeves into the green by the close. International developed markets contributed the most to the turnaround, followed by a shift in the U.S. sleeve from slight negative to slight positive, aided by strength in communication services and megacap technology names even as chip stocks retreated. Emerging markets remained the lone detractor, held down by a sharp decline in South Korean equities.

How large is today's move?

Typical day · Today's +0.24% 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

    25.28% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    +0.25% +0.06 pts to XEQT

    Canadian financials drove the sleeve's 0.25% gain, contributing the bulk of XIC's positive return as the Bank of Canada held rates steady. Materials and information technology both declined within the tracked sectors, but financials, the largest tracked component at roughly 36% of the sleeve, more than offset those drags. Industrials also added modest support.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    45.39% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    +0.11% +0.05 pts to XEQT

    The U.S. sleeve finished up 0.11%, a notable reversal from midday weakness. Among the sectors tracked, communication services rose 1.73% and consumer discretionary gained 0.95%, more than offsetting a 1.11% decline in technology. Strong quarterly earnings from major companies and a softer-than-expected U.S. inflation reading supported the broader advance.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.31% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    +0.33% +0.08 pts to XEQT

    XEF.TO advanced 0.33%, the strongest sleeve return of the session, led by Switzerland, the Netherlands, the UK, and France among the markets tracked. Japan was the exception, slipping 0.42% within the covered exposures. European gains were uneven: the DAX closed below 25,000 and the Ibex pulled back, but enough strength elsewhere in the sleeve produced a positive aggregate.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    4.79% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    -0.50% -0.02 pts from XEQT

    XEC.TO fell 0.50%, the session's only negative sleeve. South Korean equities declined 3.02% among the markets tracked, by far the largest drag within the sleeve. Taiwan and China both posted gains in the tracked portion, which partially offset the Korean weakness, but not enough to bring the sleeve positive.

    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

Three of four sleeves finished in positive territory, with the gains dispersed enough that no single region carried an outsized burden. The session's defining feature was the breadth of that recovery: what looked like a broadly negative day at midday resolved into a positive close as U.S. communication services and European markets found their footing. South Korean equities remained the session's sharpest drag, but the emerging markets sleeve is small enough in XEQT's structure that the damage was contained. At 0.5 times the recent 20-day average absolute move, this was a measured session, not a consequential one.

Signals

  • 01

    U.S. sector rotation flips sleeve positive

    Communication services rose 1.73% among U.S. sectors tracked, more than offsetting a 1.11% decline in technology and flipping the U.S. sleeve from negative at midday to positive at the close. For a long-term XEQT holder, the sector rotation within the U.S. sleeve illustrates how a single large-cap cohort can swing the day's outcome without reflecting a broad market shift.

  • 02

    South Korea drags emerging markets lower

    South Korean equities fell 3.02% among emerging market exposures tracked, accounting for the bulk of XEC.TO's 0.50% decline; Taiwan and China both gained within the covered portion but could not offset the loss. Given emerging markets represent less than 5% of XEQT, the sleeve's drag on the fund was limited to roughly 0.02 percentage points.

  • 03

    VIX drops as risk appetite improves

    The VIX, a measure of implied volatility expectations for U.S. equities, fell 5.03% to 15.67, consistent with the broad risk-on tone that helped XEQT recover through the afternoon. A VIX reading in the mid-teens reflects a relatively calm near-term outlook, which aligns with the modest positive close across three of four sleeves.

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