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Daily network digest

Friday, January 2, 2026

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 2.91× the influence of an average node across 1493 stocks.

stocks
1493
Density
0.174
Clustering
0.429
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 0.00195 2.91× 31.7% 18.0% LHX, LH, RITM, JNJ, PBA
TD 2 0.00188 2.80× 26.8% 13.4% PEG, ENB, SPG, MKL, JKHY
EPRT 3 0.00187 2.79× 32.4% 17.4% PPL, ROL, XYL, AEP, HTGC
STE 4 0.00184 2.75× 29.9% 13.3% SYK, RITM, MAIN, IDXX, NHI
SCHW 5 0.00183 2.72× 32.1% 15.2% EVRG, CL, EGP, STWD, WM
ADC 6 0.00176 2.62× 22.9% 10.8% CNO, LNT, SYY, WRB, MLI
FTS 7 0.00174 2.59× 24.2% 17.5% NHI, FRT, GLW, LECO, WTM
AIG 8 0.00172 2.57× 30.9% 20.1% AVB, ACM, V, SUI, APG
LMT 9 0.00170 2.54× 32.2% 17.2% CUBE, GTLS, RY, PECO, NJR
BNS 10 0.00166 2.47× 25.7% 14.3% PRI, RITM, PB, WTM, NLY

Rising influence vs 2026-01-01

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
FG 0.001400.00010 +0.00130
BTSG 0.001380.00010 +0.00128
NUE 0.001360.00010 +0.00126
PM 0.001350.00010 +0.00125
MMM 0.001320.00010 +0.00122

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ETN 0.000100.00145 -0.00135
BBU 0.000100.00140 -0.00130
GIL 0.000100.00134 -0.00124
AYI 0.000100.00132 -0.00122
FHB 0.000100.00132 -0.00122

Cryptocurrency

SDNUSD was the most central name, carrying 6.54× the influence of an average node across 379 assets.

assets
379
Density
0.120
Clustering
0.369
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
SDNUSD 1 0.01725 6.54× 69.3% 18.5% BEAMUSD, AURORAUSD, ELAUSD, HFTUSD, ALCXUSD
PAXGUSD 2 0.01228 4.65× 59.3% 29.1% XRPAUD, QIUSD, HFTUSD, UNIUSD, YGGUSD
SBRUSD 3 0.01227 4.65× 52.1% 25.1% TONUSD, COWUSD, INDEXUSD, NCTUSD, OPUSD
AIRUSD 4 0.01118 4.24× 48.7% 20.9% CSPRUSD, AXLUSD, CHZUSD, TIMEUSD, JUPUSD
SGBUSD 5 0.01038 3.93× 46.6% 19.8% SBRUSD, BNCUSD, RAREUSD, RBCUSD, PAXGUSD
KMNOUSD 6 0.00995 3.77× 49.2% 10.6% LSETHUSD, MVUSD, KEYUSD, ZEUSUSD, FISUSD
KAVAUSD 7 0.00948 3.59× 40.7% 10.8% POLSUSD, SDNUSD, IOTXUSD, AIRUSD, UNFIUSD
KEYUSD 8 0.00867 3.29× 43.7% 16.4% BCHNUSD, MEMEUSD, AIRUSD, REPV2USD, HFTUSD
INVUSD 9 0.00856 3.24× 36.2% 18.0% MNGOUSD, OXTUSD, BTTUSD, AXLUSD, SPECUSD
XAUTUSD 10 0.00840 3.18× 42.9% 36.0% OMGUSD, HFTUSD, ENAUSD, SCUSD, GUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-01-01

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AIRUSD 0.011180.00420 +0.00698
PAXGUSD 0.012280.00535 +0.00692
SBRUSD 0.012270.00570 +0.00657
KMNOUSD 0.009950.00364 +0.00632
KAVAUSD 0.009480.00443 +0.00505

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BSXUSD 0.002050.01435 -0.01230
ASMUSD 0.002620.01055 -0.00793
REPUSD 0.005370.01134 -0.00597
REQUSD 0.007880.01363 -0.00575
MOONUSD 0.002860.00853 -0.00567

Foreign exchange

AUDBRL was the most central name, carrying 16.51× the influence of an average node across 830 pairs.

pairs
830
Density
0.039
Clustering
0.327
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
AUDBRL 1 0.01989 16.51× 34.5% 7.8% USDRUB, NZDIDR, THBHKD, HKDCHF, HKDTHB
CADBRL 2 0.01532 12.71× 17.7% 3.5% PENCAD, KRWRUB, BRLRUB, RUBCHF, RUBKRW
KRWBRL 3 0.01410 11.71× 17.9% 4.9% CLPGBP, GBPCLP, ZARRON, RONZAR, COPUSD
PENCAD 4 0.00955 7.93× 27.0% 3.9% CNYSGD, DKKPKR, THBSGD, USDRUB, NZDUSD
COPBRL 5 0.00955 7.93× 26.7% 15.4% NZDSEK, DKKINR, DKKHKD, USDCZK, TRYPLN
CLPGBP 6 0.00918 7.62× 26.2% 7.0% GBPHTG, CHFHKD, HKDTHB, CHFUSD, NZDSEK
GBPCLP 7 0.00910 7.55× 26.2% 6.6% PENMXN, GBPHTG, THBUSD, HKDTHB, NZDSEK
DOPUSD 8 0.00910 7.55× 5.9% 1.4% JPYRSD, RSDGBP, GBPRSD, CHFRSD, GHSGBP
GBPMGA 9 0.00910 7.55× 5.9% 1.4% GBPRSD, CHFRSD, RSDGBP, JPYRSD, GHSUSD
COPUSD 10 0.00907 7.53× 26.2% 7.1% USDCHF, CHFUSD, THBHKD, CHFHKD, THBUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-01-01

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AUDBRL 0.019890.00108 +0.01880
CADBRL 0.015320.00246 +0.01286
CHFTHB 0.009050.00028 +0.00876
PENCAD 0.009550.00138 +0.00818
GBPMGA 0.009100.00121 +0.00788

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPXPF 0.000500.01531 -0.01482
TWDSEK 0.000950.01301 -0.01206
MYRZAR 0.000360.00777 -0.00741
BRLUSD 0.000320.00676 -0.00644
XAUBRL 0.001410.00719 -0.00578

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.