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Daily network digest

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Directed information-flow networks for this session, covering US equities, Cryptocurrency, Foreign exchange. Each class is estimated independently over a trailing one-year window; the tables below rank the assets carrying the most influence within their own network.

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US equities

FSV was the most central name, carrying 2.88× the influence of an average node across 1493 stocks.

stocks
1493
Density
0.168
Clustering
0.418
Diameter
2

Most central

Ranked by PageRank within the session's directed network. “vs average” shows influence relative to a node with no advantage — 1.00× would mean perfectly ordinary.

Symbol#PageRank vs averageReceives fromSends toStrongest outgoing
FSV 1 0.00193 2.88× 26.7% 14.1% HTGC, EQR, RGA, L, DD
CTAS 2 0.00186 2.78× 29.4% 12.1% MA, KO, CARR, CP, FSV
WCN 3 0.00174 2.59× 26.3% 14.1% ARCC, DOX, PNC, CSCO, ITW
CWST 4 0.00165 2.46× 30.7% 15.3% ROP, GBDC, VRSK, MMSI, AXS
CASY 5 0.00163 2.44× 32.1% 15.7% T, EXC, KHC, QSR, BDX
EHC 6 0.00162 2.42× 34.3% 16.5% AVA, PNW, EQR, WTM, BRO
FRT 7 0.00160 2.39× 22.5% 7.4% USFD, ETN, TMO, PECO, BAC
TRP 8 0.00160 2.39× 28.5% 20.2% OGE, BMO, RBA, AVA, CUBE
ULTA 9 0.00157 2.34× 35.1% 18.4% AVA, CHD, AGNC, WEC, VICI
VRSK 10 0.00156 2.33× 25.6% 18.0% FRT, AMCR, INVH, MMSI, PTC

Rising influence vs 2025-08-26

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
EHC 0.001620.00010 +0.00152
ULTA 0.001570.00010 +0.00147
STLA 0.001440.00010 +0.00134
PRVA 0.001370.00010 +0.00126
HASI 0.001330.00010 +0.00123

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
LAUR 0.000100.00137 -0.00127
PCVX 0.000100.00131 -0.00121
ROIV 0.000100.00130 -0.00120
JAZZ 0.000100.00129 -0.00119
ENS 0.000100.00128 -0.00118

Cryptocurrency

XAUTUSD was the most central name, carrying 4.97× the influence of an average node across 219 assets.

assets
219
Density
0.087
Clustering
0.286
Diameter
3

Most central

Ranked by PageRank within the session's directed network. “vs average” shows influence relative to a node with no advantage — 1.00× would mean perfectly ordinary.

Symbol#PageRank vs averageReceives fromSends toStrongest outgoing
XAUTUSD 1 0.02267 4.97× 39.9% 25.2% QIUSD, AUCTIONUSD, C98USD, VELOUSD, XRPAUD
PAXGUSD 2 0.01770 3.88× 30.7% 23.4% NEARUSD, C98USD, HNTUSD, UOSUSD, SNXUSD
MKRUSD 3 0.01752 3.84× 30.3% 12.8% MLNUSD, BADGERUSD, UOSUSD, LTCUSD, FISUSD
TRXUSD 4 0.01702 3.73× 27.1% 16.5% CVCUSD, BADGERUSD, APEUSD, KNCUSD, METISUSD
XDCUSD 5 0.01640 3.59× 30.3% 17.4% REQUSD, API3USD, KAVAUSD, PAXGUSD, SOLUSD
XRPBTC 6 0.01508 3.30× 29.8% 8.7% FARMUSD, CVCUSD, BADGERUSD, BTTUSD, AAVEUSD
BONDUSD 7 0.01417 3.10× 26.6% 17.9% RARIUSD, AVTUSD, AIOZUSD, KEEPUSD, MIRUSD
USTUSD 8 0.01365 2.99× 28.4% 12.4% ASTUSD, JUPUSD, FARMUSD, BTCAUD, OXTUSD
PNKUSD 9 0.01339 2.93× 27.1% 14.7% CLVUSD, BONKEUR, MSOLUSD, XRPBTC, BTRSTUSD
KRLUSD 10 0.01327 2.91× 26.6% 11.5% TRXUSD, BONDUSD, CHREUR, XRDUSD, ZECUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-08-26

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
MKRUSD 0.017520.00403 +0.01350
XAUTUSD 0.022670.00919 +0.01348
XDCUSD 0.016400.00767 +0.00873
TUSD 0.010560.00219 +0.00837
ZECUSD 0.008700.00236 +0.00633

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
PNKUSD 0.013390.05575 -0.04236
KRLUSD 0.013270.02381 -0.01054
AERGOUSD 0.005910.01547 -0.00957
ELAUSD 0.005030.01404 -0.00900
AIOZUSD 0.003830.01244 -0.00860

Foreign exchange

DOPUSD was the most central name, carrying 10.12× the influence of an average node across 855 pairs.

pairs
855
Density
0.086
Clustering
0.403
Diameter

Most central

Ranked by PageRank within the session's directed network. “vs average” shows influence relative to a node with no advantage — 1.00× would mean perfectly ordinary.

Symbol#PageRank vs averageReceives fromSends toStrongest outgoing
DOPUSD 1 0.01183 10.12× 3.7% 1.1% JPYRSD, CHFRSD, GBPRSD, GHSUSD, RSDGBP
GBPXPF 2 0.01039 8.88× 7.5% 7.6% XAGUSD, XAGCNY, KRWGBP, GBPMYR, JPYKRW
EURHNL 3 0.00796 6.81× 0.7% 1.2% EURSVC, EURBOB, EURKES, EURGNF, KYDEUR
SGDARS 4 0.00662 5.66× 22.1% 1.9% GBPXPF, CADRUB, JPYRUB, CHFRUB, RUBJPY
ARSSGD 5 0.00660 5.65× 24.7% 2.0% GBPXPF, CADRUB, SEKUSD, RUBJPY, CHFRUB
CADARS 6 0.00657 5.62× 24.9% 2.2% GBPXPF, SEKUSD, CADRUB, JPYRUB, RUBCHF
GBPARS 7 0.00650 5.56× 24.9% 2.7% GBPXPF, EURTWD, SEKUSD, CADRUB, RUBJPY
ARSGBP 8 0.00643 5.50× 24.2% 3.3% GBPXPF, EURTWD, XAUINR, TWDUSD, SEKUSD
ARSCAD 9 0.00627 5.36× 24.7% 2.0% GBPXPF, CADRUB, SEKUSD, RUBCHF, RUBJPY
CADRUB 10 0.00624 5.33× 18.0% 4.9% XAGZAR, GBPCAD, BRLJPY, XAGARS, XAGEUR

Rising influence vs 2025-08-26

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPXPF 0.010390.00035 +0.01004
EURHNL 0.007960.00020 +0.00776
DOPUSD 0.011830.00489 +0.00694
JPYRUB 0.006220.00160 +0.00462
CADRUB 0.006240.00209 +0.00415

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AUDBRL 0.001630.00816 -0.00653
BRLJPY 0.002600.00733 -0.00474
AEDCHF 0.000230.00476 -0.00453
GBPCLP 0.000230.00472 -0.00449
CLPGBP 0.000230.00471 -0.00449

How these numbers are produced

Transfer entropy measures how much knowing one asset's past reduces uncertainty about another's future, beyond what that asset's own past already explains. Unlike correlation it is directional, so an edge from A to B means A's moves carry information about B's next move — not merely that they move together.

Each night we estimate transfer entropy across three universes — roughly 1,500 US common stocks, 350 cryptocurrencies and 550 currency pairs — over a trailing one-year window, conditioning on a broad market series so that shared market-wide movement is discounted rather than counted as a link. Edges surviving the significance filter form that session's directed network, from which the centrality figures on this page are computed. Coverage differs by class: crypto reaches back to January 2024, equities to August 2025, so older digests may cover fewer classes.

PageRank ranks an asset by how much influence flows into it from other influential assets. In-degree and out-degree are the share of the network sending information to it and receiving information from it. Betweenness captures how often an asset sits on the shortest path between two others.

The volatility watch score is a model estimate of the probability that an asset sees elevated volatility in the coming sessions. It is a research output, not a forecast of price direction, and nothing on this page is investment advice.