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$46.20
+0.54%

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XEQT gains 0.54% as a Nasdaq record and broad emerging market strength lift all four sleeves

XEQT closed at $46.20, up 0.54%, as all four regional sleeves advanced. The U.S. sleeve was the main engine, contributing roughly 0.34 percentage points on the strength of technology and communication services, with the Nasdaq reaching a new record intraday high. Emerging markets, despite their smaller 4.9% weight in XEQT, punched well above that allocation, contributing 0.07 percentage points as Brazil surged 12.54% and Taiwan-listed equities rose 1.44%. Canada and international developed markets each added modest gains, with Canadian information technology offsetting broad weakness elsewhere in the TSX, and Japan's advance partially countering a sharp decline in French equities.

How large is today's move?

Typical day · Today's +0.54% move is 1.0× 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

    24.88% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    +0.09% +0.02 pts to XEQT

    The Canadian sleeve rose just 0.09%, contributing 0.02 percentage points to XEQT. Canadian information technology gained 1.45%, the standout among tracked sectors, while financials, energy, and industrials all declined. Falling oil prices, with WTI crude down 2.11%, kept energy under pressure and left the sleeve's net gain narrow.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    45.97% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    +0.74% +0.34 pts to XEQT

    The U.S. sleeve rose 0.74%, its contribution accounting for roughly two-thirds of XEQT's total gain. Technology added 0.56% among tracked sectors, while communication services led with 1.17%. Financials and health care also contributed positively. The Nasdaq reached a record intraday high, with buyout activity cited as supporting sentiment alongside continued momentum in tech.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.11% of XEQT

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

    The international developed sleeve gained 0.15%, a modest result shaped by sharply divergent country returns. Japan, the sleeve's largest weight, rose 0.38% and was the primary positive contributor among the markets tracked. France fell 1.04%, the steepest decline, as rising U.S. Treasury yields stoked a crisis of confidence in French sovereign debt and the France-Germany spread reached a near fifteen-year high. The euro slid to a 17-month low, and German equities ended little changed as weak economic signals offset early gains.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    4.92% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    +1.43% +0.07 pts to XEQT

    The emerging markets sleeve delivered the session's most striking return, rising 1.43% despite its small 4.9% weight in XEQT. Brazil surged 12.54% among tracked markets, by far the largest single-country move. Taiwan-listed equities gained 1.44% and China-linked equities rose 2.03%, together providing substantial additional lift. South Korea edged slightly lower and was the lone meaningful drag within the tracked exposures.

    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 positive territory on the same session is not routine; it happened here with genuine breadth, not just a rounding effect. The U.S. sleeve carried the weight, but emerging markets supplied the most surprising return, driven by sharp strength in Brazil and solid advances across Taiwan and China. For a fund built on geographic dispersion, a session where the smallest sleeve delivers the second-largest contribution is precisely the kind of asymmetric outcome that long-term holding is designed to capture.

Signals

  • 01

    Brazil surge dominates EM sleeve

    Brazil-listed equities surged 12.54%, the single largest country move in the tracked emerging markets breakdown, enough that a sleeve weighted at under 5% of XEQT still contributed 0.07 percentage points to the fund's total gain. For a passive holder, this illustrates how a concentrated event in a smaller market can temporarily dominate an otherwise diversified sleeve's return without requiring any portfolio action.

  • 02

    Rising yields pressure French equities

    The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield, a benchmark for the cost of long-term government borrowing, rose to 5.31%, its move on the day contributing to a crisis of confidence in French sovereign debt and pushing the France-Germany spread to a near fifteen-year high. This dynamic weighed on French equities, the largest drag within the international developed sleeve, while simultaneously lifting the U.S. dollar and applying pressure to euro-area markets more broadly.

  • 03

    Falling oil contained within energy

    WTI crude oil, a measure of North American oil prices, fell 2.11% to $89.19, the sharpest macro indicator move of the session, yet the broadly positive outcome across all four sleeves suggests energy sector weakness did not spread to the wider market. Canadian energy stocks declined, but the drag was more than offset by information technology within the TSX, demonstrating that sector-level headwinds need not define a sleeve's direction.

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