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$45.32
-0.68%

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XEQT falls 0.68% as oil and bond yields pressure all four sleeves on the first day of September

XEQT closed Tuesday at $45.32, down 0.68%, as all four regional sleeves declined in a session shaped by surging oil prices and rising bond yields following additional U.S. military strikes on Iran. The Canadian sleeve was the largest drag, falling 1.22% and contributing roughly 0.31 percentage points to XEQT's loss, with materials and technology both dropping more than 3% while energy surged more than 3%, softening the blow. The U.S. and international developed sleeves each fell around 0.5%, pressured by higher Treasury yields and inflation concerns that weighed on equities from Frankfurt to Tokyo. Emerging markets closed marginally lower, as sharp losses in South Korean equities were largely offset by strength in Taiwan-listed shares.

How large is today's move?

Larger-than-usual day · Today's -0.68% move is 1.9× 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

    25.64% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    -1.22% -0.31 pts from XEQT

    Canada's sleeve fell 1.22%, the steepest decline among the four regions. Materials dropped 3.66% and information technology fell 3.22%, with gold's 2.4% retreat contributing to the materials weakness. Financials also slipped 0.80%. The sole bright spot was energy, which rose 3.02% on the back of WTI crude climbing above $90, adding roughly 0.51 percentage points within the sleeve and preventing a sharper overall loss.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    45.03% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    -0.50% -0.22 pts from XEQT

    The U.S. sleeve declined 0.50%, with technology off 1.53% and consumer discretionary down 1.72% among the areas tracked. Health care gained 0.66% and U.S. energy added 1.27%, providing partial offsets. The 10-year Treasury yield rose to 4.80%, consistent with the pressure on growth-oriented sectors.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.41% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    -0.53% -0.13 pts from XEQT

    XEF.TO fell 0.53%, with Germany's DAX closing below 26,000 as eurozone inflation rose above 3%, cementing bets on another ECB rate hike. Germany was off 1.79% and France and the Netherlands each declined more than 0.9% among the markets tracked. Japan edged lower by 0.69%, with long-term Japanese government bond yields crossing 3% for the first time in three decades adding to investor caution in the region.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    4.78% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    -0.23% -0.01 pts from XEQT

    The emerging markets sleeve closed down 0.23%, masking a sharp divide within. South Korean equities fell 2.80% amid the broader global risk-off tone, while Taiwan-listed equities gained 1.58%, nearly offsetting the Korean drag within the sleeve. A global bond selloff reaching emerging markets, with Fed rate-hike expectations weighing on sentiment, contributed to the pressure outside of Taiwan.

    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

All four sleeves finishing in negative territory on a day when oil surged more than 5% and the VIX climbed nearly 10% illustrates how a single macro shock can compress geographic diversification. The day's structure, however, also showed offsetting forces at work: Canadian energy posted a 3% gain that cushioned the sleeve's steeper losses in materials and technology, while Taiwan-listed equities provided a partial counterweight inside emerging markets. At 1.9 times the recent daily average, the session was notable but not anomalous; moves of this magnitude are a recurring feature of equity ownership, not a signal to act.

Signals

  • 01

    WTI crude oil surges 5.6%

    WTI crude oil, which tracks the price of a barrel of North American benchmark oil, jumped 5.57% to $90.54, its largest single-day move in recent sessions, driven by fresh U.S. military strikes on Iran. For XEQT holders, the surge had a split effect: Canadian and U.S. energy sectors each advanced meaningfully, cushioning their respective sleeves, while the inflationary signal from higher oil appeared to weigh on broader equity sentiment across all regions.

  • 02

    VIX near double-digit daily rise

    The VIX, which measures the options market's expectation of near-term U.S. equity volatility, rose 9.52% to 16.34, approaching the threshold of a meaningful single-day spike. The elevated reading is consistent with the broad-based decline across all four XEQT sleeves, suggesting that risk appetite contracted simultaneously rather than this being a region-specific story.

  • 03

    Gold and copper retreat diverge from energy

    Gold fell 2.38% while copper dropped 2.26%, and the Canadian materials sleeve fell 3.66%, making precious and industrial metals together the clearest within-sleeve drag on Canada despite energy's offsetting gain. The contrast between energy's surge and materials' sharp retreat shows how commodity exposure within a single sleeve can cut in opposite directions on the same session.

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