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Daily network digest

Tuesday, January 6, 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

PPL was the most central name, carrying 2.86× the influence of an average node across 1495 stocks.

stocks
1495
Density
0.174
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
PPL 1 0.00192 2.86× 24.9% 19.4% CSX, SSNC, SPG, MLM, CPRT
STN 2 0.00183 2.73× 29.7% 13.9% COR, DUK, LIN, V, SCI
FERG 3 0.00182 2.72× 32.6% 15.6% WES, TRP, GWW, SNA, HON
MS 4 0.00175 2.62× 27.9% 9.8% EPRT, SPG, CPRT, MSCI, FELE
FRT 5 0.00174 2.59× 30.8% 14.5% BMO, ADT, CL, EMR, DLB
EMR 6 0.00170 2.55× 30.4% 13.6% FERG, FHB, CTAS, PGR, HII
CSQ 7 0.00167 2.49× 24.8% 3.9% CTAS, ATR, BIPC, ESNT, OZK
WCN 8 0.00166 2.48× 26.6% 15.5% AB, JPM, SEIC, MLM, PAYX
OTTR 9 0.00165 2.47× 30.3% 17.1% KO, NDSN, SYY, AON, CPRT
SPGI 10 0.00164 2.45× 26.7% 17.8% LIN, H, DRI, VCTR, SR

Rising influence vs 2026-01-05

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ETN 0.001410.00010 +0.00131
LLYVA 0.001350.00010 +0.00125
BKR 0.001350.00010 +0.00125
SLGN 0.001310.00010 +0.00121
FHB 0.001280.00010 +0.00118

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
WH 0.000100.00127 -0.00117
HALO 0.000100.00125 -0.00115
MTZ 0.000100.00125 -0.00114
UHS 0.000100.00123 -0.00113
IRM 0.000100.00122 -0.00112

Cryptocurrency

MVUSD was the most central name, carrying 5.91× the influence of an average node across 379 assets.

assets
379
Density
0.122
Clustering
0.356
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
MVUSD 1 0.01559 5.91× 59.3% 41.3% AIRUSD, GNOUSD, SAFEUSD, IOTUSD, 00USD
CQTUSD 2 0.01334 5.05× 53.2% 29.1% DOTUSD, XRPUSD, BTCJPY, BTTUSD, SCUSD
KAVAUSD 3 0.01173 4.45× 50.0% 13.8% ADXUSD, REQUSD, RENUSD, PROUSD, PLUUSD
REQUSD 4 0.00947 3.59× 39.7% 24.6% RBCUSD, QIUSD, DIMOUSD, SAFEUSD, 00USD
XAUTUSD 5 0.00870 3.30× 43.1% 40.2% XDCUSD, SEIEUR, AERGOUSD, PYRUSD, BADGERUSD
TRXUSD 6 0.00866 3.28× 37.3% 16.7% XRTUSD, CQTUSD, STRKUSD, INVUSD, TRACUSD
LITUSD 7 0.00853 3.23× 36.2% 14.3% SEAMUSD, TUSD, MNTUSD, ZETACHAINUSD, BTCJPY
MXCUSD 8 0.00822 3.11× 41.8% 33.1% HBARUSD, NEOUSD, CHZUSD, INDEXUSD, ETHAUD
SRMUSD 9 0.00807 3.06× 38.1% 28.0% AAVEUSD, ETHUSD, LSETHUSD, IDEXUSD, LRCUSD
AIRUSD 10 0.00805 3.05× 38.6% 15.9% DIMOUSD, KAVAUSD, SEIEUR, SEAMUSD, 00USD

Rising influence vs 2026-01-05

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
MVUSD 0.015590.00463 +0.01096
CQTUSD 0.013340.00347 +0.00986
DNTUSD 0.007460.00195 +0.00551
MXCUSD 0.008220.00287 +0.00534
SRMUSD 0.008070.00293 +0.00514

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
SBRUSD 0.005350.01366 -0.00831
PAXGUSD 0.006870.01402 -0.00714
FLRUSD 0.001850.00864 -0.00679
SGBUSD 0.004630.01130 -0.00667
KMNOUSD 0.004550.01060 -0.00606

Foreign exchange

AUDBRL was the most central name, carrying 16.77× the influence of an average node across 827 pairs.

pairs
827
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 0.02028 16.77× 35.1% 8.1% NZDIDR, GBPHTG, CHFHKD, PENMXN, THBUSD
CADBRL 2 0.01572 13.00× 17.9% 3.5% PENCAD, KRWRUB, BRLRUB, RUBKRW, CHFRUB
KRWBRL 3 0.01467 12.13× 17.8% 4.5% GBPCLP, RONZAR, ZARRON, CLPGBP, COPUSD
PENCAD 4 0.00971 8.03× 27.4% 3.6% DKKPKR, USDRUB, MYRTWD, USDNGN, ZARPKR
COPBRL 5 0.00952 7.88× 26.8% 15.3% NZDSEK, DKKHKD, EURHKD, DKKUSD, HKDEUR
GBPMGA 6 0.00944 7.81× 5.9% 1.5% RSDGBP, JPYRSD, CHFRSD, GBPRSD, GBPGHS
DOPUSD 7 0.00938 7.75× 5.9% 1.5% JPYRSD, RSDGBP, GBPRSD, CHFRSD, GHSGBP
GBPCLP 8 0.00922 7.62× 26.3% 6.8% HKDTHB, GBPHTG, HKDCHF, THBHKD, USDCHF
CLPGBP 9 0.00916 7.57× 26.3% 7.0% GBPHTG, USDCHF, PENMXN, HKDTHB, HKDCHF
COPUSD 10 0.00903 7.47× 26.3% 7.1% HKDCHF, HKDTHB, THBHKD, CHFUSD, GBPHTG

Rising influence vs 2026-01-05

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AUDBRL 0.020280.00105 +0.01922
CADBRL 0.015720.00213 +0.01359
KRWBRL 0.014670.00553 +0.00914
CHFTHB 0.009000.00026 +0.00874
PENCAD 0.009710.00121 +0.00850

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPXPF 0.000490.01397 -0.01348
TWDSEK 0.000940.01152 -0.01058
MYRZAR 0.000370.00717 -0.00681
EURRWF 0.000260.00657 -0.00631
BRLUSD 0.000330.00597 -0.00564

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.