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Close Edition. Friday, July 24, 2026

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$44.56
+0.24%

Headline

XEQT closes modestly higher as European gains offset a South Korean selldown and late U.S. tech softness

XEQT closed up 0.24% at $44.56 on Friday, a narrower gain than the fund had carried through the middle of the day as the U.S. sleeve faded in afternoon trading. Three of four sleeves finished positive, with international developed markets contributing the most at 0.71%, followed by Canada at 0.48%. The U.S. sleeve settled up just 0.13% as technology weighed, while emerging markets fell 1.74%, dragged down sharply by South Korea. Oil pulling back from the prior session's peak, on reports of Iran-U.S. peace talk exploration, steadied sentiment across Western markets after several days of geopolitical pressure.

How large is today's move?

Typical day · Today's +0.24% move is 0.4× 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

    25.49% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    +0.48% +0.12 pts to XEQT

    Canada added 0.48%, contributing 0.12 percentage points to XEQT. Financials, the largest sector tracked within the sleeve, rose 0.88% and were the clear driver. Energy fell 0.83%, consistent with WTI crude retreating nearly 2% on the day, but that drag was more than offset by strength in financials, materials, and consumer staples.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    45.32% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    +0.13% +0.06 pts to XEQT

    The U.S. sleeve finished up just 0.13%, contributing 0.06 percentage points, a notably smaller figure than it carried mid-session. Technology, the largest tracked sector at roughly a third of the sleeve, fell 1.44%, acting as the primary brake. Financials, communication services, and health care all advanced, keeping the sleeve in positive territory despite that concentrated headwind.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.32% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    +0.71% +0.17 pts to XEQT

    International developed markets led all sleeves with a 0.71% gain, adding 0.17 percentage points to XEQT. The UK was the single largest tracked contributor, supported by gains in financial stocks. Germany closed above 25,000 points, helped by strong earnings including a near-10% rise in SAP shares, while Sweden also contributed meaningfully among the areas tracked. The Netherlands was the lone notable detractor within the sleeve.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    4.78% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    -1.74% -0.08 pts from XEQT

    Emerging markets fell 1.74%, the sharpest sleeve decline of the session. South Korea dominated the damage: the KOSPI closed down 5.72%, triggering a sell-side sidecar, with Samsung Electronics and SK hynix each falling roughly 8% as Middle East tensions and inflation fears drove foreign and institutional selling. Taiwan-listed equities also fell among the tracked markets. India was the standout on the positive side, partially offsetting losses elsewhere within the sleeve.

    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 gain built on three of four sleeves, with the fourth a sharp detractor, describes a day where geography and sector composition did the real work. The international developed sleeve's breadth, UK financials, German software, and Scandinavian markets all contributing, cushioned what was a genuinely painful session for Korean and Taiwanese equities. The U.S. sleeve's late fade, as technology gave back ground, narrowed the final return from mid-session levels without reversing it. Across today's data, the fund's spread across four regions, each moving on distinct drivers, kept a significant single-market shock from mattering more than it did.

Signals

  • 01

    South Korea chip selldown triggers sidecar

    South Korean equities fell more than 6% among the markets tracked within emerging markets, with the KOSPI triggering a circuit-breaker mechanism called a sell-side sidecar after chip-sector heavyweights dropped roughly 8%. At roughly 20% of the emerging markets sleeve and under 1% of XEQT overall, the damage was real but structurally contained.

  • 02

    U.S. tech drag offset by sector rotation

    U.S. technology, the largest single sector tracked in the U.S. sleeve at roughly a third of its weight, fell 1.44% while financials, communication services, and health care each rose more than 0.7%, producing a near-flat sleeve outcome that masked significant rotation underneath. For a long-term XEQT holder, this kind of intra-sleeve offset is a recurring feature of broad-market indexing: concentrated sector weakness does not automatically translate into sleeve-level loss when other sectors are gaining.

  • 03

    Oil retreat eases inflation pressure

    WTI crude, a benchmark for global oil prices that feeds directly into energy sector earnings expectations, fell nearly 2% on Friday after reports of Iran-U.S. peace-talk exploration, pulling back from the prior session's $100-a-barrel level. Canadian energy fell 0.83% in response, but the retreat in oil prices appeared to ease inflation fears more broadly, contributing to firmer sentiment in European and North American equity markets.

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