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Daily network digest

Tuesday, January 20, 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

STN was the most central name, carrying 2.71× the influence of an average node across 1492 stocks.

stocks
1492
Density
0.180
Clustering
0.428
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
STN 1 0.00181 2.71× 29.7% 11.5% SCI, V, COR, MSA, LIN
WCN 2 0.00175 2.61× 28.8% 16.2% AB, WPC, ICE, BNL, FWONK
OTTR 3 0.00173 2.58× 32.1% 17.9% FTS, AON, CLH, KO, WRB
FRT 4 0.00168 2.51× 32.6% 16.2% AME, BAP, BRO, EMR, RGA
CSQ 5 0.00166 2.48× 26.3% 4.4% CTAS, PFE, PPG, PWR, ARW
GIL 6 0.00164 2.45× 37.4% 19.7% EXC, SUI, CUBE, EMR, FTS
NHI 7 0.00164 2.44× 26.0% 14.8% APG, AON, GD, MCK, RCI
SO 8 0.00163 2.44× 25.4% 16.4% BXMT, CCK, BCE, FHI, HTGC
SPGI 9 0.00163 2.44× 26.7% 19.1% ENB, STWD, AVA, FCNCA, CPRT
EMR 10 0.00163 2.43× 30.1% 14.7% FHB, ES, RITM, HCA, CM

Rising influence vs 2026-01-19

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ETN 0.001390.00010 +0.00129
DBX 0.001320.00010 +0.00122
HASI 0.001310.00010 +0.00120
CNH 0.001290.00010 +0.00119
BKR 0.001250.00010 +0.00115

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
HALO 0.000100.00126 -0.00116
UHS 0.000100.00126 -0.00116
TDS 0.000100.00124 -0.00114
MTZ 0.000100.00121 -0.00111
RDN 0.000100.00121 -0.00111

Cryptocurrency

SBRUSD was the most central name, carrying 5.26× the influence of an average node across 379 assets.

assets
379
Density
0.117
Clustering
0.352
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
SBRUSD 1 0.01387 5.26× 54.5% 20.6% TONUSD, INDEXUSD, COWUSD, OPUSD, REQUSD
SGBUSD 2 0.01294 4.91× 52.1% 13.2% RAREUSD, KAVAUSD, ASMUSD, SBRUSD, BNCUSD
AIRUSD 3 0.01293 4.90× 53.7% 17.7% JUPUSD, CSPRUSD, AXLUSD, TIMEUSD, AUDIOUSD
PAXGUSD 4 0.01206 4.57× 54.2% 19.6% UNIUSD, KAVAUSD, ORCAUSD, HFTUSD, GUSD
KAVAUSD 5 0.01089 4.13× 41.3% 11.6% TOKEUSD, POLSUSD, AIRUSD, ETHFIUSD, XAUTUSD
PNKUSD 6 0.01050 3.98× 40.7% 27.8% XTZUSD, SWFTCUSD, CORECHAINUSD, REQUSD, AUDIOUSD
REQUSD 7 0.00870 3.30× 36.2% 25.1% MNTUSD, BADGERUSD, SWFTCUSD, CSPRUSD, BITUSD
KMNOUSD 8 0.00859 3.26× 38.4% 13.0% KAVAUSD, LSETHUSD, ATLASUSD, AGLDUSD, LRDSUSD
KEYUSD 9 0.00827 3.13× 39.4% 11.9% ALPHAUSD, MEMEUSD, WUSD, INDEXUSD, CLOUDUSD
XAUTUSD 10 0.00812 3.08× 41.0% 27.0% HFTUSD, UNIUSD, OMGUSD, ORCAUSD, GUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-01-19

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
SBRUSD 0.013870.00399 +0.00988
AIRUSD 0.012930.00587 +0.00707
SGBUSD 0.012940.00714 +0.00580
PAXGUSD 0.012060.00675 +0.00531
KAVAUSD 0.010890.00584 +0.00506

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
NYMUSD 0.003670.01216 -0.00848
BSXUSD 0.002140.01053 -0.00839
REQUSD 0.008700.01497 -0.00627
LCXUSD 0.005640.01143 -0.00578
PROUSD 0.004500.00986 -0.00536

Foreign exchange

AUDBRL was the most central name, carrying 18.16× the influence of an average node across 817 pairs.

pairs
817
Density
0.039
Clustering
0.322
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 18.16× 35.7% 7.8% USDRUB, NZDIDR, HKDTHB, USDCHF, PENMXN
CADBRL 2 0.01737 14.19× 18.1% 3.7% RUBCHF, PENCAD, CHFRUB, KRWRUB, RUBMXN
KRWBRL 3 0.01625 13.28× 18.0% 5.1% CLPGBP, RONZAR, GBPCLP, ZARRON, COPUSD
PENCAD 4 0.00984 8.04× 27.7% 5.3% CHFHKD, THBHKD, GBPHTG, CNYSGD, HKDTHB
DOPUSD 5 0.00981 8.01× 5.9% 1.1% RSDGBP, GBPRSD, JPYRSD, CHFRSD, GHSUSD
GBPMGA 6 0.00977 7.98× 5.9% 1.1% JPYRSD, RSDGBP, CHFRSD, GBPRSD, GBPGHS
COPMXN 7 0.00953 7.79× 27.1% 7.2% HKDTHB, CHFUSD, HKDCHF, GBPHTG, CHFHKD
COPBRL 8 0.00952 7.78× 27.1% 15.2% NZDSEK, USDEUR, HKDEUR, EURHKD, USDCZK
CLPGBP 9 0.00941 7.68× 26.6% 7.0% CHFHKD, HKDTHB, CHFUSD, USDCHF, GBPHTG
GBPCLP 10 0.00937 7.66× 26.6% 7.0% THBUSD, HKDTHB, PENMXN, USDCHF, CHFHKD

Rising influence vs 2026-01-19

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AUDBRL 0.022220.00108 +0.02114
CADBRL 0.017370.00216 +0.01521
KRWBRL 0.016250.00607 +0.01019
CHFTHB 0.009280.00026 +0.00902
PENCAD 0.009840.00173 +0.00810

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPXPF 0.000520.01491 -0.01440
TWDSEK 0.001350.01259 -0.01123
MYRZAR 0.000370.00778 -0.00741
BRLUSD 0.000340.00602 -0.00568
GBPBRL 0.000370.00581 -0.00544

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.