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Midday Edition. Thursday, August 27, 2026

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$46.02
+0.23%

Headline

U.S. technology drives XEQT's midday gain as Nvidia earnings reinforce the AI trade

Since opening near flat, XEQT has moved to +0.23% as the session has developed, with U.S. technology doing the heavy lifting. Nvidia's strong earnings forecast, which quelled concerns about the durability of AI spending growth, drew buyers into the sector and pushed the U.S. sleeve to +0.57%, accounting for the bulk of XEQT's gain. The other three sleeves are offering little in either direction, with Canada essentially flat, international developed markets modestly lower, and emerging markets a small positive.

How large is this afternoon's move?

Typical day · This afternoon'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

    25.98% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    -0.02% -0.00 pts from XEQT

    Canada is near flat on the session, masking a sharp internal split. Financial stocks are the main drag, down roughly 1% among tracked sectors and pulling the sleeve lower, while Canadian information technology has surged more than 3% in the areas tracked, largely offsetting those losses. Materials have also contributed positively among covered exposures, consistent with a modest rise in gold prices.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    44.62% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    +0.57% +0.25 pts to XEQT

    Technology is carrying the U.S. sleeve almost entirely on its own, rising close to 3% among the sectors tracked and contributing more than a full percentage point within the sleeve. Every other major tracked sector, from health care to communication services to industrials, is lower on the session, making this a notably narrow advance. The sleeve's +0.57% return reflects that technology's weight is large enough to overcome broad softness elsewhere.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.48% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    -0.30% -0.07 pts from XEQT

    European markets are the sleeve's main drag, with France falling more than 1.6% among tracked markets amid fiscal concerns and political uncertainty ahead of a Fitch sovereign rating review. The UK, Switzerland, Italy, and Spain are all lower among the covered exposures. Japan is providing partial offset, rising about 0.4% among tracked markets, though broader Nikkei gains faded after early strength linked to Nvidia's results.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    4.74% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    +0.34% +0.02 pts to XEQT

    Taiwan is driving the sleeve's positive result, advancing more than 2% among tracked markets and easily the largest positive contributor within the tracked emerging markets exposure. South Korea is also positive among covered markets. Those gains are running against declines in China, India, and Poland among tracked instruments, though Taiwan's weight is large enough to keep the sleeve in positive territory.

    Emerging Markets market region icon

Colored bars represent biggest contributors to XEQT's move this afternoon (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

U.S. technology's outsized weight within XEQT means a strong session for that sector can move the whole fund even when three of four sleeves are soft or modestly negative. What stands out here is the concentration of the gain: a single tracked sector within one sleeve delivered most of XEQT's advance, while Canada, international developed markets, and emerging markets contributed little net lift. That is a useful reminder that broad daily gains and concentrated daily gains can look similar at the fund level. The session is quiet relative to recent averages, and the fund's rolling month remains firmly positive.

Signals

  • 01

    U.S. gain is single-sector narrow

    Among the sectors tracked within the U.S. sleeve, technology rose nearly 3% while every other major tracked sector declined, producing a gain that rests almost entirely on one pillar. For a long-term XEQT holder, this highlights how heavily today's fund-level result depends on a single sector's performance within the largest sleeve.

  • 02

    VIX drops as anxiety fades

    The VIX, a measure of expected near-term volatility in U.S. equities derived from options pricing, has fallen more than 5% so far in the session, reaching 14.44 and signaling reduced anxiety across markets. A calmer volatility backdrop is generally consistent with the kind of sector-specific buying seen in technology today, rather than broad risk appetite returning across all sleeves.

  • 03

    Japan offsets European weakness

    Within the international developed sleeve, Japan is advancing while the major eurozone markets tracked are all lower, creating a meaningful geographic split inside a single sleeve. France's decline stands out, with fiscal and political concerns adding pressure on top of the broader European softness, and the divergence between Japan and continental Europe is the key dynamic shaping the sleeve's modest negative contribution.

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