Q: What's up with the HXS ETF today (Jan 21)? The Canadian dollar is down 0.1%, the S&P is up 0.65%, yet, instead of being 0.75% up, the HXS is down 1.2% at the moment and below yesterday's NAV. The volume is below average, so it doesn't look like any big sellers dumping shares. What can explain almost 2% difference between the expected and observed behaviour of this ETF?
5i Research Answer:
HXS rose 0.83% yesterday while the US market was closed. With today's decline it is essentially unchanged (slightly down) over two days. The C$ went WAY up yesterday (+1.15%) which would largely explain the discrepiency vs the S&P's 0.65% gain today.