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Daily network digest

Thursday, December 18, 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

RPRX was the most central name, carrying 2.90× the influence of an average node across 1493 stocks.

stocks
1493
Density
0.176
Clustering
0.433
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
RPRX 1 0.00194 2.90× 31.0% 17.8% LH, JNJ, RITM, PBA, CM
SCHW 2 0.00190 2.84× 31.8% 14.6% EVRG, STWD, CPK, CME, CL
STE 3 0.00189 2.82× 31.3% 14.9% RITM, NHI, TFC, BSY, IDXX
EPRT 4 0.00176 2.63× 31.4% 18.7% PPL, ROL, XYL, AMH, AGNC
TD 5 0.00173 2.58× 25.5% 14.2% ITW, GBDC, ABM, VOYA, NEU
FTS 6 0.00172 2.56× 25.9% 17.0% FRT, NHI, EMR, LECO, BK
ADC 7 0.00171 2.55× 21.8% 10.6% SYY, WRB, CDP, KIM, TJX
BNS 8 0.00170 2.54× 24.5% 15.4% PRI, PB, RITM, MET, NLY
CME 9 0.00167 2.49× 26.3% 17.7% TD, AME, FRT, GLPI, STWD
WES 10 0.00167 2.49× 30.3% 15.7% FR, PB, EQIX, CINF, IDA

Rising influence vs 2025-12-17

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ROST 0.001480.00010 +0.00138
PM 0.001420.00010 +0.00132
BTSG 0.001360.00010 +0.00126
MMM 0.001350.00010 +0.00125
NUE 0.001330.00010 +0.00123

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ETN 0.000100.00146 -0.00136
BBU 0.000100.00141 -0.00131
FHB 0.000100.00131 -0.00121
TXT 0.000100.00127 -0.00116
TMO 0.000100.00125 -0.00115

Cryptocurrency

SBRUSD was the most central name, carrying 5.22× the influence of an average node across 379 assets.

assets
379
Density
0.109
Clustering
0.349
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
SBRUSD 1 0.01376 5.22× 51.9% 20.9% TONUSD, COWUSD, OPUSD, BTCGBP, NCTUSD
KEEPUSD 2 0.01355 5.14× 51.3% 17.5% CQTUSD, TRXUSD, BALUSD, MLNUSD, ADXUSD
PAXGUSD 3 0.01308 4.96× 55.6% 28.6% XRPAUD, UNIUSD, ALEOUSD, OMGUSD, IOTUSD
KMNOUSD 4 0.01179 4.47× 50.8% 10.8% LRDSUSD, KAVAUSD, LSETHUSD, MVUSD, ZEUSUSD
AIRUSD 5 0.01167 4.42× 50.5% 17.2% AXLUSD, TIMEUSD, CSPRUSD, KRLUSD, MNTUSD
KAVAUSD 6 0.01044 3.96× 40.2% 10.3% TOKEUSD, BCHEUR, RARIEUR, ETHFIUSD, RARIUSD
INVUSD 7 0.01009 3.83× 37.8% 19.8% YFIUSD, MNGOUSD, OXTUSD, PAXGUSD, UNFIUSD
PNKUSD 8 0.00971 3.68× 39.2% 24.3% ATLASUSD, SWFTCUSD, HDXUSD, CORECHAINUSD, XTZUSD
KEYUSD 9 0.00951 3.60× 42.9% 12.2% BCHNUSD, AIRUSD, REPV2USD, MEMEUSD, RAREUSD
XAUTUSD 10 0.00939 3.56× 45.0% 36.0% ORCAUSD, SCUSD, LPTUSD, HNTUSD, AVTUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-12-17

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
KMNOUSD 0.011790.00284 +0.00895
SBRUSD 0.013760.00615 +0.00761
PAXGUSD 0.013080.00585 +0.00722
AIRUSD 0.011670.00497 +0.00670
KAVAUSD 0.010440.00453 +0.00590

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BSXUSD 0.002120.01323 -0.01111
GARIUSD 0.007360.01667 -0.00930
PROUSD 0.003040.01202 -0.00898
ASMUSD 0.002910.00984 -0.00692
REQUSD 0.006630.01331 -0.00669

Foreign exchange

CNYHKD was the most central name, carrying 16.23× the influence of an average node across 898 pairs.

pairs
898
Density
0.046
Clustering
0.352
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
CNYHKD 1 0.01807 16.23× 1.6% 0.4% PENCOP, GHSUSD, CLPCOP, COPCLP
GBPXPF 2 0.01077 9.67× 4.6% 7.5% NZDTRY, KRWBRL, TWDCAD, TWDJPY, TWDHKD
SEKILS 3 0.00892 8.01× 6.8% 4.5% ILSNOK, KRWBRL, GBPBRL, BRLRUB, PENBRL
JPYBRL 4 0.00861 7.73× 12.4% 6.4% RUBCAD, USDRUB, BRLUSD, CADRUB, RUBUSD
TWDSEK 5 0.00855 7.68× 5.4% 5.7% TZSZAR, KRWBRL, GBPBRL, HUFZAR, ZARNGN
BRLJPY 6 0.00805 7.23× 12.2% 6.6% CADRUB, BRLUSD, RUBCAD, USDRUB, RUBUSD
ARSPEN 7 0.00732 6.57× 11.7% 2.1% CDFUSD, GBPCDF, CDFGBP, EURCDF, GBPBIF
GBPMGA 8 0.00692 6.22× 10.8% 0.1% CNYHKD
USDUYU 9 0.00683 6.13× 10.8% 0.1% CNYHKD
PENMXN 10 0.00640 5.75× 21.2% 0.3% GBPXPF, TWDSEK, SEKILS

Rising influence vs 2025-12-17

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
CNYHKD 0.018070.00945 +0.00862
SEKILS 0.008920.00089 +0.00802
TWDSEK 0.008550.00067 +0.00788
JPYBRL 0.008610.00176 +0.00685
BRLJPY 0.008050.00174 +0.00631

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BWPZAR 0.000700.00550 -0.00480
EURIDR 0.000230.00460 -0.00437
EURHNL 0.001000.00535 -0.00435
USDRUB 0.002170.00648 -0.00432
GBPARS 0.003150.00672 -0.00357

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.