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Close Edition. Wednesday, July 22, 2026

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$44.96
-0.04%

Headline

XEQT closes flat as Canadian commodity strength offsets a U.S. technology retreat

What looked like a positive session at midday resolved into a near-flat close, as gains in Canadian materials and energy were gradually erased by weakness in U.S. technology and communication services. The U.S. sleeve, XEQT's largest at 45% of the fund, fell 0.27% and was the dominant drag, contributing roughly minus 0.12 percentage points. Canada, boosted by rising oil and gold prices, gained 0.28% and provided the main offset. Emerging markets declined 0.51%, weighed down by South Korean and Indian equities, while international developed markets finished nearly unchanged at plus 0.05%.

How large is today's move?

Typical day · Today's -0.04% move is <0.1× 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

    25.33% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    +0.28% +0.07 pts to XEQT

    Canada's sleeve gained 0.28%, contributing plus 0.07 percentage points to XEQT. Materials rose 2.53% and energy climbed 1.27%, both lifted by WTI crude advancing roughly 2.6% and gold reaching $4,135. The TSX briefly touched an intraday record high during the session. Canadian technology was a drag, falling 2.71%, though its sleeve weight limited the damage.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    45.31% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    -0.27% -0.12 pts from XEQT

    The U.S. sleeve fell 0.27%, the largest single detractor from XEQT on the session. Among the sectors tracked, communication services and consumer discretionary each declined around 0.75%, while technology slipped 0.28%. U.S. energy rose 1.20%, providing a partial offset, but not enough to prevent the sleeve from closing negative as markets swung between small gains and losses ahead of key earnings results.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.36% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    +0.05% +0.01 pts to XEQT

    International developed markets finished nearly flat at plus 0.05%, adding only 0.01 percentage points to XEQT. European markets were generally positive, with the UK rising 1.00%, France gaining 0.73%, and Spain and Italy both advancing. Japan fell 0.59% and Switzerland declined 0.46%, offsetting most of the European strength. The DAX closed in positive territory despite oil-driven supply concerns creating mixed conditions across the region.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    4.78% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    -0.51% -0.02 pts from XEQT

    Emerging markets declined 0.51%, subtracting roughly 0.02 percentage points from XEQT. South Korean equities fell 1.43%, India dropped 1.15%, and Chinese equities slid 0.80%, together accounting for most of the sleeve's loss. Taiwan was a meaningful counterweight, rising 1.09% as the local bourse gained 1.34% on the session, and Brazil advanced 2.81% among the markets tracked.

    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 nearly flat at the fund level masked genuine tension underneath: Canadian materials and energy pulled strongly in one direction while U.S. technology and communication services pulled in the other. The net result was cancellation rather than calm, with the two largest sleeves effectively offsetting each other. For a long-term holder, the session illustrates how geographic diversification can mute headline volatility even when individual sleeves are doing meaningfully different things. The structure absorbed a real divergence and delivered a near-zero outcome.

Signals

  • 01

    Oil surge lifts commodity sleeves

    WTI crude rose roughly 2.6% to $86.53, consistent with reports of continued fighting in the U.S.-Iran conflict lifting supply concerns. This helped Canadian materials and energy account for nearly all of the Canada sleeve's positive contribution, even as most other parts of XEQT moved lower.

  • 02

    U.S. growth sectors retreat before earnings

    Among the U.S. sectors tracked, communication services fell 0.75% and consumer discretionary declined 0.74%, compounding a mild 0.28% drop in technology as markets showed caution ahead of major technology earnings results. This sector rotation pattern, with defensives and energy holding while growth-oriented sectors retreated, defined the direction of the U.S. sleeve and ultimately of XEQT for the session.

  • 03

    EM split: Taiwan gains, Korea and India fall

    Within the emerging markets sleeve, Taiwan rose 1.09% while South Korea fell 1.43% and India dropped 1.15%, a sharp split within the same sleeve that largely cancelled out. For a fund holder, this kind of within-sleeve divergence means the reported sleeve return understates the range of outcomes across the individual markets represented.

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