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Daily network digest

Tuesday, September 2, 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.

Jump to: US equities · Cryptocurrency · Foreign exchange

US equities

FSV was the most central name, carrying 2.91× the influence of an average node across 1491 stocks.

stocks
1491
Density
0.170
Clustering
0.420
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 0.00195 2.91× 26.7% 14.6% HTGC, CPT, ARMK, PAGP, RGA
CTAS 2 0.00185 2.76× 29.9% 12.1% CP, MA, ECL, FSV, GEHC
CASY 3 0.00168 2.51× 31.9% 16.3% ATR, KHC, CTAS, ARCC, CARR
CWST 4 0.00168 2.50× 31.7% 16.0% VRSK, GBDC, EBAY, FCN, ROP
WCN 5 0.00166 2.48× 25.7% 15.9% CSCO, DOX, PNC, BSM, CPT
FRT 6 0.00165 2.45× 23.4% 8.0% USFD, WTS, ETN, BAC, CBSH
VRSK 7 0.00159 2.36× 26.6% 18.4% MCD, FRT, RY, INVH, AMCR
VLTO 8 0.00156 2.33× 26.0% 16.4% INVH, FIS, WEC, TD, CMS
ULTA 9 0.00156 2.33× 36.1% 18.8% AVA, AGNC, DTE, WTW, AEP
EOG 10 0.00155 2.31× 28.8% 16.8% IDA, MA, BKH, SLF, ROP

Rising influence vs 2025-09-01

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ULTA 0.001560.00010 +0.00146
EHC 0.001550.00010 +0.00145
BKR 0.001450.00010 +0.00135
STLA 0.001410.00010 +0.00131
DD 0.001390.00010 +0.00129

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
LAUR 0.000100.00142 -0.00132
ROIV 0.000100.00134 -0.00124
JAZZ 0.000100.00134 -0.00123
PCVX 0.000100.00134 -0.00123
TOST 0.000100.00132 -0.00122

Cryptocurrency

XAUTUSD was the most central name, carrying 4.72× the influence of an average node across 219 assets.

assets
219
Density
0.087
Clustering
0.295
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 0.02158 4.72× 36.2% 27.1% C98USD, AUCTIONUSD, QIUSD, MATICUSD, CGLDUSD
PAXGUSD 2 0.01940 4.25× 32.1% 27.1% NEARUSD, C98USD, UOSUSD, TRUUSD, QIUSD
TRXUSD 3 0.01940 4.25× 31.7% 15.1% CVCUSD, BADGERUSD, BCHUSD, FARMUSD, DIAUSD
XDCUSD 4 0.01701 3.73× 31.7% 15.6% REQUSD, PAXGUSD, SOLUSD, BCHUSD, ELAUSD
BONDUSD 5 0.01665 3.65× 31.7% 19.3% RARIUSD, AVTUSD, AIOZUSD, KEEPUSD, TRBUSD
MKRUSD 6 0.01605 3.51× 28.4% 13.3% BADGERUSD, MLNUSD, PNKUSD, UOSUSD, LTCUSD
KAVAUSD 7 0.01599 3.50× 28.4% 11.0% SWFTCUSD, NEARUSD, AAVEUSD, USTUSD, FORTHUSD
ZECUSD 8 0.01461 3.20× 23.9% 9.2% DASHUSD, EGLDUSD, SRMUSD, SKLUSD, ALPHAUSD
PNKUSD 9 0.01455 3.19× 28.9% 12.4% CLVUSD, XRPBTC, BONKEUR, NEXOUSD, MSOLUSD
XRPBTC 10 0.01447 3.17× 27.1% 10.1% FARMUSD, AAVEUSD, BADGERUSD, BTTUSD, OXYUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-09-01

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZECUSD 0.014610.00250 +0.01211
XAUTUSD 0.021580.00962 +0.01195
MKRUSD 0.016050.00510 +0.01095
BONDUSD 0.016650.00682 +0.00983
XDCUSD 0.017010.00804 +0.00898

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
PNKUSD 0.014550.05482 -0.04027
SRMUSD 0.009390.02234 -0.01295
ELAUSD 0.004320.01492 -0.01060
UOSUSD 0.005240.01509 -0.00985
CHREUR 0.002350.01206 -0.00971

Foreign exchange

BRLJPY was the most central name, carrying 7.37× the influence of an average node across 841 pairs.

pairs
841
Density
0.066
Clustering
0.398
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
BRLJPY 1 0.00877 7.37× 17.4% 6.2% XAUJPY, COPBRL, BRLKRW, CHFTHB, PENCAD
AUDBRL 2 0.00790 6.65× 39.9% 8.1% BRLKRW, XAUBRL, USDRUB, HKDCHF, THBHKD
EURPYG 3 0.00679 5.71× 1.5% 1.2% BRLEUR, EURLRD, EURDOP, EURGYD, EURDJF
XAUBRL 4 0.00670 5.64× 25.0% 6.9% XAURUB, ARSMXN, GBPARS, IDRTHB, RUBMXN
JPYBRL 5 0.00645 5.42× 18.2% 6.7% XAUJPY, COPBRL, BRLKRW, CHFTHB, SCRGBP
COPBRL 6 0.00613 5.15× 33.7% 17.5% NZDSEK, BRLKRW, USDMKD, USDRUB, DKKUSD
BRLCHF 7 0.00607 5.10× 16.1% 9.4% BRLKRW, XAUJPY, COPBRL, PENCAD, XAUBRL
CHFBRL 8 0.00598 5.03× 16.3% 9.2% BRLKRW, XAUJPY, COPBRL, PENCAD, USDRUB
BRLKRW 9 0.00591 4.97× 18.7% 10.8% ARSMXN, QARZAR, XAGRUB, ARSCAD, HKDARS
USDCLP 10 0.00552 4.64× 35.7% 8.9% PENMXN, HKDCHF, THBHKD, CHFHKD, USDCHF

Rising influence vs 2025-09-01

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
EURPYG 0.006790.00103 +0.00576
AUDBRL 0.007900.00215 +0.00576
BRLJPY 0.008770.00307 +0.00570
CHFINR 0.004740.00030 +0.00444
AEDCHF 0.004720.00029 +0.00443

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPXPF 0.000360.01311 -0.01275
SEKILS 0.001970.01221 -0.01024
TWDSEK 0.001120.00876 -0.00764
EURGHS 0.001920.00823 -0.00631
MYRZAR 0.000420.00616 -0.00574

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.