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Close Edition. Wednesday, August 19, 2026

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$45.60
-0.23%

Headline

U.S. technology pressure closes XEQT down 0.23% as three other sleeves advance.

XEQT closed at $45.60, down 0.23% on the session, with the U.S. sleeve responsible for the preponderance of the decline. Broadcom weighed on Nasdaq-listed technology names, pulling U.S. tech down 1.07% among the sectors tracked and contributing the largest single headwind to the fund. Health care surged 3.51% within the U.S. sleeve, and consumer discretionary rose 1.92%, but neither offset the technology drag fully. Canada, international developed markets, and emerging markets all finished slightly positive, leaving the U.S. sleeve as the session's defining force.

How large is today's move?

Typical day · Today's -0.23% 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

    25.65% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    +0.15% +0.04 pts to XEQT

    Canada's sleeve gained 0.15%, contributing roughly 0.04 percentage points to XEQT. The story inside the sleeve was sharp divergence: materials surged 7.04% among tracked sectors, adding over 1.2 points within the sleeve alone, while financials fell 2.66% and were the primary offset. A three-day delay on new U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods supported broader TSX sentiment, though financials' steep drop kept the net sleeve gain modest.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    45.13% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    -0.45% -0.20 pts from XEQT

    The U.S. sleeve fell 0.45%, subtracting roughly 0.20 percentage points from XEQT, making it the session's dominant drag. Broadcom's decline pulled technology down 1.07% among tracked sectors, the largest within-sleeve headwind. U.S. Treasury buyback activity helped calm bond yields and supported health care, which rose 3.51%, but that gain was not sufficient to overcome technology's outsized weight. The Canadian dollar's 0.61% rise against the U.S. dollar added a further translation headwind for Canadian holders of USD-denominated assets.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.35% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    +0.21% +0.05 pts to XEQT

    The international developed sleeve rose 0.21%, adding about 0.05 percentage points to XEQT. Switzerland advanced 2.46% among tracked markets, and the UK, Australia, France, and Germany each rose between 0.82% and 1.22%. Japan fell 0.62%, weighed by chip-related names as bond yield anxiety suppressed AI-linked sentiment, offsetting the broader European gains. The DAX closed little changed, with high sovereign yields and limited ECB guidance keeping German equities in a narrow range.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    4.66% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    +0.39% +0.02 pts to XEQT

    Emerging markets gained 0.39%, contributing roughly 0.02 percentage points to XEQT. South Korea advanced 2.58% among tracked markets despite a separate headline from earlier in the day describing steep losses in Seoul chipmakers tied to rising global yields; the close-of-session data show a net positive outcome. South Africa rose 4.75% and China added 0.89%, while Taiwan's 0.30% gain provided steady support given its large weight 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

Three of XEQT's four sleeves finished in positive territory, yet the U.S. sleeve's weight of roughly 45% of the fund was enough to pull the whole vehicle lower. What the session revealed is how concentrated the drag was: technology alone accounted for the bulk of the U.S. shortfall, while health care and consumer discretionary moved meaningfully in the opposite direction within that same sleeve. A decline of 0.23% on a day shaped by a single large-cap name in one sector is a narrow story, not a broad one.

Signals

  • 01

    Gold surge powers Canadian materials

    Gold rose 3.54% to $4,577, a sharp move for an asset that tends to act as a store of value when confidence in paper assets and rate stability wavers. Within the Canada sleeve, materials surged 7.04% among tracked sectors, consistent with that gold move driving mining-related names sharply higher and nearly masking large losses in financials.

  • 02

    Rate relief lifts health care

    The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield fell 1.13% on the session to 4.653%, easing pressure that had weighed on rate-sensitive areas, while health care within the U.S. sleeve surged 3.51% partly on Treasury buyback action that calmed the bond market. For XEQT holders, the rate-sensitive divergence inside the U.S. sleeve was unusually wide, with technology down and health care sharply higher in the same session.

  • 03

    VIX falls as decline stays narrow

    The VIX, a measure of expected near-term volatility in U.S. equities, dropped 6.00% to 14.89, signaling reduced anxiety across markets even as the U.S. sleeve closed lower. The combination of a falling VIX and three positive sleeves suggests that the session's weakness was concentrated and sector-specific rather than a broad risk-off move.

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