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Close Edition. Thursday, July 16, 2026

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$44.86
-0.55%

Headline

A chip-stock selloff pulls all four XEQT sleeves lower as AI valuations face renewed scrutiny.

A global semiconductor selloff defined Thursday's session, pulling all four of XEQT's regional sleeves into negative territory and leaving the fund at $44.86, down 0.55%. The U.S. sleeve was the largest dollar contributor to the decline, off 0.46%, though steep chip-related losses in that market were partly offset by gains in health care and consumer staples. Emerging markets fell the hardest in percentage terms, sliding 1.45%, dragged by sharp declines in South Korean and Taiwanese equities as investors reassessed the durability of the AI-driven rally.

How large is today's move?

Typical day · Today's -0.55% move is 1.2× 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

    25.29% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    -0.12% -0.03 pts from XEQT

    Canada's sleeve slipped 0.12%, its smallest loss among the four regions. Materials was the clear drag, falling 3.32% within the sleeve as gold prices declined 1.80%, pulling mining-related shares lower. Financials also eased modestly, while consumer staples and energy provided partial offsets, limiting the sleeve's overall damage.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    45.35% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    -0.46% -0.21 pts from XEQT

    The U.S. sleeve fell 0.46%, contributing the largest share of XEQT's decline at roughly 0.21 percentage points. Technology was the decisive drag among tracked sectors, down 2.24%, as AI-related stocks faced renewed selling pressure. Health care and consumer staples each rose more than 2%, keeping the sleeve's total loss considerably narrower than its technology component alone would imply.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.34% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    -0.66% -0.16 pts from XEQT

    The international developed sleeve fell 0.66%, with Japan the primary driver of the loss. Japanese equities dropped sharply as chip-related stocks slid in the wake of the global AI selloff. European markets were more resilient among the tracked exposures: Germany and France declined modestly, while the UK advanced 0.43%, providing a partial counterweight.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    4.76% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    -1.45% -0.07 pts from XEQT

    Emerging markets fell 1.45%, the steepest sleeve decline of the session, though the small weight of this sleeve at 4.76% of XEQT contained its contribution to roughly 0.07 percentage points. South Korean equities were at the center of the move, tumbling sharply as Samsung and SK Hynix led semiconductor losses. Taiwan-listed technology names also declined meaningfully, extending the pressure across both of the sleeve's largest country exposures.

    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

The session's breadth tells the cleaner story: all four sleeves declined, yet XEQT's -0.55% loss was contained well within the range of recent daily moves, sitting at 1.2 times the 20-day average absolute swing. The heaviest damage was concentrated in semiconductor-exposed markets, and the U.S. sleeve's losses were offset in part by notable recoveries in health care and consumer staples, which limited the fund's total drawdown. A session defined by one sectoral theme rippling across geographies is precisely the environment where geographic breadth offers some natural ballast.

Signals

  • 01

    VIX climbs as AI caution returns

    The VIX, a measure of expected near-term volatility in U.S. equities, rose 6.76% to 16.73, reflecting a notable shift in market caution even as the absolute level remains below the threshold of outright stress. For an XEQT holder, this kind of single-session spike is worth watching: it signals that the AI valuation debate has real short-term pricing power, but 16.73 is far from the elevated readings historically associated with sustained market dislocations.

  • 02

    Gold drop isolates Canadian materials

    Gold fell 1.80% while Canadian materials stocks, heavily exposed to mining, dropped 3.32% within the Canada sleeve, making that sector the steepest single contributor to domestic losses despite Canada's overall muted decline. The divergence between a broadly flat energy sector and a sharply lower materials sector shows that commodity-driven forces within Canada are not uniform: what weighs on miners today is not necessarily weighing on energy producers.

  • 03

    U.S. sector rotation limits tech damage

    U.S. technology fell 2.24% among tracked sectors, yet health care rose 2.22% and consumer staples rose 2.80%, a sharp rotation that absorbed much of the sectoral damage within the sleeve. This internal offset is a direct illustration of why sector concentration within a single sleeve does not translate one-for-one into fund-level losses when defensive sectors move in the opposite direction on the same day.

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