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Daily network digest

Wednesday, January 7, 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

SCHW was the most central name, carrying 2.78× the influence of an average node across 1494 stocks.

stocks
1494
Density
0.173
Clustering
0.423
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
SCHW 1 0.00186 2.78× 32.2% 14.8% EGP, AVB, EVRG, VRSK, CME
TD 2 0.00180 2.69× 26.1% 12.9% SPG, MKL, ITW, LAUR, ENB
STE 3 0.00176 2.63× 30.1% 14.0% SYK, ALLE, PECO, AB, BSY
RPRX 4 0.00174 2.60× 27.7% 17.5% RS, LH, JNJ, V, LHX
FTS 5 0.00172 2.57× 23.6% 16.7% NHI, WTM, AMH, FRT, MPLX
CNA 6 0.00170 2.54× 29.8% 15.7% MA, MPLX, LHX, GRMN, NWE
BNS 7 0.00170 2.54× 25.3% 13.4% PRI, PB, NLY, FRT, CWEN
FCN 8 0.00169 2.53× 26.3% 12.7% V, MA, MPLX, ESNT, AMT
PECO 9 0.00167 2.50× 28.1% 14.9% BNS, WPC, CLH, TRP, IRT
FSV 10 0.00167 2.49× 29.3% 17.5% CNA, PEG, NYT, BRK.A, SKT

Rising influence vs 2026-01-06

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
MASI 0.001520.00010 +0.00142
FG 0.001420.00010 +0.00132
BTSG 0.001340.00010 +0.00124
LGND 0.001320.00010 +0.00122
NUE 0.001320.00010 +0.00122

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ETN 0.000100.00141 -0.00131
GIL 0.000100.00136 -0.00126
BBU 0.000100.00136 -0.00126
AYI 0.000100.00132 -0.00121
FHB 0.000100.00128 -0.00118

Cryptocurrency

REQUSD was the most central name, carrying 5.02× the influence of an average node across 379 assets.

assets
379
Density
0.120
Clustering
0.357
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
REQUSD 1 0.01324 5.02× 50.8% 16.9% TUSD, TBTCUSD, QIUSD, KRLUSD, ELAUSD
BSXUSD 2 0.01122 4.25× 49.5% 9.3% PAXGUSD, SGBUSD, SUSHIUSD, FLOKIUSD, XRTUSD
GOMININGUSD 3 0.01087 4.12× 46.0% 22.2% ACSUSD, CLVUSD, TONUSD, UMAUSD, ALCXUSD
REPUSD 4 0.01078 4.09× 43.1% 14.0% RARIEUR, PNKUSD, L3USD, RAREUSD, ALEPHUSD
LCXUSD 5 0.01041 3.94× 47.6% 11.1% LQTYUSD, REPV2USD, DOGEUSD, TOKEUSD, PIRATEUSD
NYMUSD 6 0.01034 3.92× 44.2% 20.1% QTUMUSD, BNCUSD, ETCUSD, ADXUSD, API3USD
INVUSD 7 0.01018 3.86× 47.1% 16.4% TUSD, BSXUSD, BATUSD, HDXUSD, BOBAUSD
MNGOUSD 8 0.01016 3.85× 41.5% 29.6% GLMUSD, TUSD, EGLDUSD, BNCUSD, SNXUSD
ASMUSD 9 0.01004 3.80× 43.9% 7.1% MDTUSD, XMRUSD, BITUSD, SHDWUSD, BADGERUSD
PROUSD 10 0.01003 3.80× 48.9% 18.0% HNTUSD, ASMUSD, PNKUSD, ATOMUSD, AVTUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-01-06

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GOMININGUSD 0.010870.00255 +0.00832
ASMUSD 0.010040.00310 +0.00694
PROUSD 0.010030.00425 +0.00578
LCXUSD 0.010410.00465 +0.00575
INVUSD 0.010180.00446 +0.00572

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
MVUSD 0.003520.01559 -0.01207
CQTUSD 0.002700.01334 -0.01064
KAVAUSD 0.004950.01173 -0.00678
SRMUSD 0.002290.00807 -0.00579
DNTUSD 0.002640.00746 -0.00481

Foreign exchange

DOPUSD was the most central name, carrying 11.81× the influence of an average node across 850 pairs.

pairs
850
Density
0.059
Clustering
0.359
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 0.01390 11.81× 3.7% 1.1% JPYRSD, RSDGBP, CHFRSD, GBPRSD, GHSUSD
USDSOS 2 0.00876 7.45× 4.6% 1.4% USDPEN, GHSGBP, ARSCLP, CLPARS, ARSPEN
CNYINR 3 0.00818 6.96× 7.5% 0.8% SEKILS, JPYILS, BRLKRW, ILSJPY, PLNILS
GBPMUR 4 0.00816 6.94× 7.4% 0.2% SEKILS, PLNILS
GBPXPF 5 0.00789 6.71× 5.3% 6.0% MYRGBP, TWDMYR, TWDHKD, TWDINR, KRWSEK
ARSEUR 6 0.00786 6.68× 9.7% 2.6% PENARS, EURARS, SCRGBP, ILSPLN, SCRUSD
CNYSGD 7 0.00716 6.09× 13.2% 2.2% GBPCAD, GBPXPF, DKKPKR, BRLCAD, HKDBRL
GBPARS 8 0.00665 5.65× 18.6% 1.6% GBPXPF, AUDTHB, PHPGBP, EURTWD, CHFRUB
CADARS 9 0.00644 5.47× 19.4% 1.8% RUBJPY, GBPXPF, USDRUB, PHPGBP, OMRZAR
SGDARS 10 0.00643 5.46× 16.8% 1.5% GBPXPF, BWPZAR, RUBKRW, RUBCAD, PHPGBP

Rising influence vs 2026-01-06

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPXPF 0.007890.00049 +0.00741
CNYINR 0.008180.00228 +0.00590
EURHNL 0.005650.00031 +0.00534
USDSOS 0.008760.00358 +0.00518
ARSEUR 0.007860.00269 +0.00517

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AUDBRL 0.001260.02028 -0.01902
CADBRL 0.001120.01572 -0.01461
KRWBRL 0.000710.01467 -0.01396
GBPCLP 0.000210.00922 -0.00901
CLPGBP 0.000210.00916 -0.00895

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.