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Daily network digest

Wednesday, January 14, 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 2.81× the influence of an average node across 1494 stocks.

stocks
1494
Density
0.176
Clustering
0.421
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 0.00188 2.81× 26.3% 18.0% CSX, PG, CPRT, GD, MSFT
STN 2 0.00183 2.73× 29.6% 13.1% SCI, V, LIN, AMT, STT
FERG 3 0.00182 2.72× 31.7% 15.3% ARCC, TRP, GWW, OBDC, SNA
SPGI 4 0.00174 2.60× 27.3% 18.2% UBSI, AME, MSFT, AVA, ENB
WCN 5 0.00172 2.57× 27.9% 15.9% AB, ICE, CPT, FWONK, SEIC
MS 6 0.00172 2.57× 27.8% 10.5% EPRT, CPRT, HIG, MSCI, SR
FRT 7 0.00169 2.52× 30.0% 15.9% TDY, RGA, EMR, ADT, BMO
CSQ 8 0.00165 2.47× 24.7% 4.4% CTAS, ATR, BPOP, EWBC, ARW
OTTR 9 0.00164 2.45× 29.9% 17.5% KO, FTS, NDSN, CLH, AON
CTAS 10 0.00161 2.40× 29.5% 16.9% MA, UNP, ESS, DUK, SYK

Rising influence vs 2026-01-13

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ETN 0.001430.00010 +0.00133
DBX 0.001340.00010 +0.00124
CNH 0.001320.00010 +0.00122
BKR 0.001320.00010 +0.00122
FBK 0.001300.00010 +0.00120

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
HALO 0.000100.00128 -0.00118
UHS 0.000100.00128 -0.00118
IRM 0.000100.00127 -0.00117
MTZ 0.000100.00125 -0.00115
RDN 0.000100.00123 -0.00113

Cryptocurrency

SGBUSD was the most central name, carrying 4.81× the influence of an average node across 381 assets.

assets
381
Density
0.116
Clustering
0.348
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
SGBUSD 1 0.01262 4.81× 49.7% 16.8% RAREUSD, BNCUSD, SBRUSD, ASMUSD, AIRUSD
SBRUSD 2 0.01223 4.66× 49.2% 20.5% INDEXUSD, OPUSD, COWUSD, AUDIOUSD, DNTUSD
AIRUSD 3 0.01207 4.60× 50.3% 19.5% AUDIOUSD, JUPUSD, CSPRUSD, TRXUSD, TIMEUSD
KMNOUSD 4 0.01094 4.17× 47.1% 10.3% KAVAUSD, LSETHUSD, ZEUSUSD, LRDSUSD, XCNUSD
PAXGUSD 5 0.01093 4.17× 51.3% 21.6% UNIUSD, KAVAUSD, HFTUSD, XRPUSD, OMGUSD
KAVAUSD 6 0.01061 4.04× 43.9% 11.6% TOKEUSD, AIRUSD, IOTXUSD, ETHFIUSD, POLSUSD
PNKUSD 7 0.00963 3.67× 37.4% 27.9% ANKRUSD, XTZUSD, SWFTCUSD, SHPINGUSD, ATLASUSD
XAUTUSD 8 0.00884 3.37× 43.9% 32.4% UNIUSD, HFTUSD, UMAUSD, ORCAUSD, MOVRUSD
KEYUSD 9 0.00853 3.25× 42.4% 12.6% ALPHAUSD, AIRUSD, BCHNUSD, SDUSD, MEMEUSD
REQUSD 10 0.00815 3.10× 34.5% 30.0% MNTUSD, BADGERUSD, CVCUSD, GFIUSD, CSPRUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-01-13

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
SBRUSD 0.012230.00406 +0.00817
KMNOUSD 0.010940.00400 +0.00694
AIRUSD 0.012070.00571 +0.00636
SGBUSD 0.012620.00640 +0.00623
KAVAUSD 0.010610.00549 +0.00513

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BSXUSD 0.002190.01128 -0.00910
NYMUSD 0.003660.01266 -0.00901
REQUSD 0.008150.01438 -0.00623
PROUSD 0.004570.01028 -0.00571
ASMUSD 0.004260.00976 -0.00550

Foreign exchange

DOPUSD was the most central name, carrying 13.82× the influence of an average node across 842 pairs.

pairs
842
Density
0.060
Clustering
0.361
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 0.01641 13.82× 3.7% 1.1% GBPRSD, JPYRSD, RSDGBP, CHFRSD, COPCLP
GBPXPF 2 0.01336 11.25× 5.4% 5.7% TWDINR, TWDSGD, USDTWD, TWDHKD, TWDKRW
USDSOS 3 0.00872 7.34× 5.0% 1.5% USDPEN, CLPARS, ZARUGX, ARSPEN, PENCOP
CNYINR 4 0.00776 6.54× 7.4% 0.8% SEKILS, BRLKRW, JPYILS, ILSJPY, PLNILS
GBPMUR 5 0.00773 6.50× 7.4% 0.2% SEKILS, PLNILS
CNYSGD 6 0.00756 6.37× 13.3% 0.1% GBPXPF
ARSEUR 7 0.00709 5.97× 9.4% 3.0% PENARS, EURARS, SCRGBP, ILSPLN, XAUEUR
ARSCAD 8 0.00661 5.56× 19.9% 1.9% GBPXPF, RUBJPY, RUBCAD, LKRZAR, AUDTHB
CADARS 9 0.00658 5.54× 19.7% 2.0% GBPXPF, USDRUB, RUBJPY, PHPGBP, JPYCHF
GBPARS 10 0.00652 5.49× 18.9% 1.9% GBPXPF, SEKUSD, USDRUB, AEDZAR, RUBCAD

Rising influence vs 2026-01-13

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPXPF 0.013360.00044 +0.01292
DOPUSD 0.016410.00977 +0.00664
CNYINR 0.007760.00220 +0.00556
CHFPKR 0.005580.00047 +0.00511
USDSOS 0.008720.00381 +0.00491

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AUDBRL 0.001250.02126 -0.02001
CADBRL 0.001350.01640 -0.01505
KRWBRL 0.000780.01547 -0.01469
CLPGBP 0.000210.00914 -0.00893
GBPCLP 0.000210.00907 -0.00886

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.