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Daily network digest

Thursday, January 8, 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

PBA was the most central name, carrying 3.02× the influence of an average node across 1495 stocks.

stocks
1495
Density
0.172
Clustering
0.410
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
PBA 1 0.00202 3.02× 24.7% 13.5% L, AGNC, RY, PCAR, O
CSX 2 0.00185 2.76× 23.4% 14.1% CL, V, IDA, DIS, POST
CME 3 0.00178 2.66× 28.0% 20.5% OHI, OGE, SPGI, OTEX, ALLE
ITW 4 0.00162 2.42× 22.4% 12.2% WTM, RGA, MCK, HRB, REXR
OHI 5 0.00161 2.40× 29.1% 15.9% DPZ, JKHY, O, BRK.B, WEC
COST 6 0.00160 2.40× 29.6% 12.0% VLTO, LECO, DIS, INVH, CNO
FHI 7 0.00158 2.36× 28.4% 12.8% BRX, MLM, ARMK, SU, FFIN
ROP 8 0.00156 2.33× 22.2% 15.3% BNS, AEP, EXPD, SSB, CME
AIG 9 0.00155 2.31× 29.2% 18.9% OHI, ROP, MTG, PBA, BRK.A
INTU 10 0.00154 2.30× 28.6% 14.3% CMS, ENB, DLB, HSIC, KO

Rising influence vs 2026-01-07

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AYI 0.001380.00010 +0.00128
WH 0.001260.00010 +0.00116
INCY 0.001260.00010 +0.00116
MTZ 0.001250.00010 +0.00115
TXT 0.001220.00010 +0.00112

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
DBX 0.000100.00147 -0.00137
BTSG 0.000100.00134 -0.00124
COKE 0.000100.00130 -0.00120
BKR 0.000100.00130 -0.00119
PEN 0.000100.00125 -0.00115

Cryptocurrency

PAXGUSD was the most central name, carrying 5.17× the influence of an average node across 379 assets.

assets
379
Density
0.117
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
PAXGUSD 1 0.01364 5.17× 62.2% 23.3% UNIUSD, HFTUSD, A8USD, ALEOUSD, XRPAUD
SBRUSD 2 0.01333 5.05× 54.5% 19.3% OPUSD, TONUSD, COWUSD, INDEXUSD, SKLUSD
AIRUSD 3 0.01183 4.48× 48.9% 23.5% AXLUSD, JUPUSD, TRXUSD, TIMEUSD, CSPRUSD
KMNOUSD 4 0.01071 4.06× 47.6% 7.7% LSETHUSD, KAVAUSD, SGBUSD, ZEUSUSD, KP3RUSD
KAVAUSD 5 0.01068 4.05× 42.9% 11.1% IOTXUSD, ETHFIUSD, POLSUSD, RARIUSD, AIRUSD
SGBUSD 6 0.01065 4.04× 43.9% 15.6% RAREUSD, SBRUSD, BNCUSD, ASMUSD, AIRUSD
KEYUSD 7 0.00969 3.67× 47.1% 15.3% BCHNUSD, ALPHAUSD, AIRUSD, MEMEUSD, TUSD
REQUSD 8 0.00920 3.49× 39.7% 28.8% ICXUSD, BADGERUSD, CVCUSD, CSPRUSD, MNTUSD
TRXUSD 9 0.00864 3.28× 41.0% 13.8% GLMUSD, RARIUSD, FOXUSD, CVCUSD, LSKUSD
FLRUSD 10 0.00855 3.24× 37.8% 9.5% MNDEUSD, BONDUSD, TLMUSD, TNSRUSD, REPV2USD

Rising influence vs 2026-01-07

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
SBRUSD 0.013330.00496 +0.00837
PAXGUSD 0.013640.00665 +0.00699
KMNOUSD 0.010710.00374 +0.00696
AIRUSD 0.011830.00605 +0.00578
KAVAUSD 0.010680.00495 +0.00574

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BSXUSD 0.002200.01122 -0.00902
NYMUSD 0.003180.01034 -0.00716
REPUSD 0.004590.01078 -0.00619
ASMUSD 0.004070.01004 -0.00597
PROUSD 0.004590.01003 -0.00545

Foreign exchange

GBPXPF was the most central name, carrying 11.85× the influence of an average node across 868 pairs.

pairs
868
Density
0.047
Clustering
0.362
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
GBPXPF 1 0.01365 11.85× 4.7% 8.2% NZDTRY, TWDCHF, CADKRW, GBPKRW, KRWGBP
TWDSEK 2 0.01158 10.05× 6.2% 4.5% GBPBRL, KRWBRL, RONCHF, BRLJPY, ZARRON
BRLJPY 3 0.00989 8.58× 12.1% 7.2% USDRUB, BRLUSD, RUBCAD, CADRUB, RUBUSD
JPYBRL 4 0.00977 8.48× 12.7% 7.0% USDRUB, CADRUB, BRLUSD, RUBCAD, RUBUSD
EURCRC 5 0.00778 6.75× 1.5% 0.3% EURUYU, EURTTD, EURNGN
PENMXN 6 0.00746 6.48× 21.6% 0.2% GBPXPF, TWDSEK
CNYCAD 7 0.00734 6.37× 21.5% 1.0% GBPXPF, GBPBRL, TWDSEK, BRLSEK, KRWBRL
MYRZAR 8 0.00714 6.19× 21.2% 0.2% GBPXPF, TWDSEK
CNYSGD 9 0.00710 6.16× 21.1% 2.3% DKKPKR, GBPXPF, GBPCAD, KRWBRL, GBPBRL
MXNARS 10 0.00675 5.86× 24.2% 1.6% JPYBRL, BRLJPY, GBPXPF, BRLCHF, TWDSEK

Rising influence vs 2026-01-07

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TWDSEK 0.011580.00068 +0.01090
BRLJPY 0.009890.00164 +0.00825
JPYBRL 0.009770.00173 +0.00803
MYRZAR 0.007140.00130 +0.00583
CNYCAD 0.007340.00156 +0.00579

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPMUR 0.000510.00816 -0.00766
CNYINR 0.001190.00818 -0.00699
USDSOS 0.001860.00876 -0.00690
EURHNL 0.000210.00565 -0.00545
SEKILS 0.000760.00620 -0.00543

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.