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Daily network digest

Friday, January 16, 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 1494 stocks.

stocks
1494
Density
0.173
Clustering
0.414
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× 25.7% 12.3% O, ULS, AGNC, MCK, L
CME 2 0.00176 2.63× 28.0% 20.0% SPGI, DUK, OTEX, ALLE, OGE
CSX 3 0.00169 2.52× 22.2% 13.1% V, CL, PBH, IDA, BNL
EVRG 4 0.00163 2.43× 21.5% 10.0% FRT, ADC, EXLS, WSFS, AIZ
OHI 5 0.00162 2.43× 29.6% 17.0% DPZ, MCD, TRMB, JKHY, BMO
COST 6 0.00159 2.37× 30.3% 12.5% NNI, VLTO, AWK, DIS, CTVA
AIG 7 0.00156 2.34× 29.2% 19.7% ROP, BRK.A, OHI, PBA, AMH
ROP 8 0.00156 2.33× 22.2% 13.8% BNS, STE, JCI, MTB, CME
TGNA 9 0.00155 2.31× 24.8% 14.3% CP, CPB, AWK, AEP, ROL
EPD 10 0.00155 2.31× 22.8% 10.2% CSX, CSCO, PBH, ITW, COR

Rising influence vs 2026-01-15

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AYI 0.001340.00010 +0.00124
WH 0.001290.00010 +0.00119
BGC 0.001240.00010 +0.00114
IRM 0.001230.00010 +0.00113
MTZ 0.001220.00010 +0.00112

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
DBX 0.000100.00142 -0.00132
FHN 0.000100.00141 -0.00131
BTSG 0.000100.00132 -0.00122
BKR 0.000100.00128 -0.00118
COKE 0.000100.00124 -0.00114

Cryptocurrency

REQUSD was the most central name, carrying 5.60× the influence of an average node across 379 assets.

assets
379
Density
0.120
Clustering
0.360
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 0.01479 5.60× 54.5% 15.9% ELAUSD, TUSD, LINKUSD, HBARUSD, OGNUSD
NYMUSD 2 0.01254 4.75× 52.9% 22.5% ADXUSD, ETCUSD, BNCUSD, REPV2USD, QTUMUSD
BSXUSD 3 0.01101 4.17× 50.0% 9.0% PAXGUSD, SGBUSD, XAUTUSD, YGGUSD, PRIMEUSD
LCXUSD 4 0.01075 4.07× 46.0% 11.9% GOMININGUSD, DOGEUSD, LQTYUSD, AEROUSD, PIRATEUSD
PROUSD 5 0.01043 3.95× 50.5% 20.9% HNTUSD, PNKUSD, ASMUSD, ATOMUSD, ZROUSD
GOMININGUSD 6 0.01038 3.93× 45.2% 24.6% UMAUSD, RAREUSD, WUSD, WEUR, ICXUSD
MNGOUSD 7 0.01011 3.83× 43.9% 31.0% GLMUSD, BNCUSD, EGLDUSD, FXSUSD, TUSD
INVUSD 8 0.00976 3.70× 46.8% 15.9% TUSD, BSXUSD, HDXUSD, RARIUSD, SCUSD
ASMUSD 9 0.00974 3.69× 42.6% 7.1% XMRUSD, MDTUSD, BITUSD, BADGERUSD, LTCEUR
GARIUSD 10 0.00934 3.54× 48.4% 24.3% INVUSD, NYMUSD, NEARUSD, DSHUSD, ONDOUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-01-15

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GOMININGUSD 0.010380.00295 +0.00742
NYMUSD 0.012540.00512 +0.00742
ASMUSD 0.009740.00287 +0.00687
PROUSD 0.010430.00425 +0.00618
LCXUSD 0.010750.00505 +0.00570

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
CQTUSD 0.002980.01179 -0.00880
MVUSD 0.003480.01162 -0.00814
DNTUSD 0.002940.00887 -0.00593
LITUSD 0.003120.00859 -0.00546
MXCUSD 0.003340.00876 -0.00542

Foreign exchange

AUDBRL was the most central name, carrying 18.28× the influence of an average node across 823 pairs.

pairs
823
Density
0.039
Clustering
0.320
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 0.02222 18.28× 35.4% 7.9% USDRUB, NZDIDR, THBUSD, USDCHF, HKDTHB
CADBRL 2 0.01725 14.19× 18.0% 3.6% PENCAD, RUBCHF, KRWRUB, RUBKRW, CHFRUB
KRWBRL 3 0.01621 13.34× 17.9% 5.0% CLPGBP, GBPCLP, RONZAR, ZARRON, COPUSD
PENCAD 4 0.00999 8.22× 27.7% 5.4% USDNGN, THBHKD, CNYSGD, CHFUSD, HKDCHF
COPBRL 5 0.00980 8.06× 26.9% 15.2% NZDSEK, HKDDKK, USDISK, CZKUSD, DKKINR
DOPUSD 6 0.00956 7.86× 5.8% 1.1% JPYRSD, GBPRSD, CHFRSD, RSDGBP, GHSUSD
GBPMGA 7 0.00949 7.81× 5.8% 1.1% CHFRSD, RSDGBP, JPYRSD, GBPRSD, GBPGHS
CLPGBP 8 0.00943 7.76× 26.4% 7.1% HKDCHF, CHFUSD, PENMXN, THBHKD, NZDSEK
COPMXN 9 0.00936 7.70× 26.9% 7.2% GBPHTG, CHFUSD, CHFHKD, USDCHF, THBHKD
GBPCLP 10 0.00933 7.68× 26.4% 6.9% USDCHF, THBUSD, GBPHTG, CHFHKD, PENMXN

Rising influence vs 2026-01-15

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AUDBRL 0.022220.00103 +0.02118
CADBRL 0.017250.00210 +0.01514
KRWBRL 0.016210.00642 +0.00979
CHFTHB 0.009270.00026 +0.00900
PENCAD 0.009990.00190 +0.00809

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPXPF 0.000500.01457 -0.01406
TWDSEK 0.001940.01251 -0.01058
MYRZAR 0.000370.00775 -0.00738
BRLUSD 0.000340.00591 -0.00557
CNYSGD 0.002630.00769 -0.00507

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.