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Daily network digest

Wednesday, January 21, 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.

Jump to: US equities · Cryptocurrency · Foreign exchange

US equities

BNS was the most central name, carrying 2.73× the influence of an average node across 1492 stocks.

stocks
1492
Density
0.178
Clustering
0.433
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
BNS 1 0.00183 2.73× 29.6% 12.2% PRI, WTM, ATMU, NLY, GD
TD 2 0.00181 2.70× 28.2% 14.0% SPG, JKHY, PEG, MKL, MCK
SCHW 3 0.00180 2.69× 31.3% 16.4% AVB, VRSK, BAC, BKH, JKHY
PECO 4 0.00179 2.66× 29.6% 15.6% WPC, CLH, TRP, IRT, BNS
EPRT 5 0.00178 2.66× 30.1% 18.4% PPL, XYL, AGNC, AEP, LIN
FTS 6 0.00174 2.59× 24.7% 16.9% AMH, L, WTM, SSNC, GLW
RPRX 7 0.00173 2.58× 28.6% 17.6% LH, PBA, LHX, V, ETR
STE 8 0.00169 2.52× 29.9% 14.7% ALLE, SYK, AVA, TFC, PEN
MFC 9 0.00165 2.47× 31.8% 14.1% T, MSM, BK, HTGC, MPLX
HIG 10 0.00165 2.46× 28.1% 14.8% WCN, EPD, MLM, FHN, DLB

Rising influence vs 2026-01-20

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
FG 0.001360.00010 +0.00126
DB 0.001320.00010 +0.00122
PM 0.001290.00010 +0.00119
LGND 0.001290.00010 +0.00119
BTSG 0.001280.00010 +0.00118

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ETN 0.000100.00139 -0.00129
IRTC 0.000100.00130 -0.00120
AYI 0.000100.00129 -0.00119
CNH 0.000100.00129 -0.00119
BBU 0.000100.00128 -0.00118

Cryptocurrency

MVUSD was the most central name, carrying 4.64× the influence of an average node across 390 assets.

assets
390
Density
0.123
Clustering
0.356
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
MVUSD 1 0.01189 4.64× 44.7% 44.7% AIRUSD, GNOUSD, RLCUSD, MAGICUSD, COMPUSD
CQTUSD 2 0.01081 4.22× 43.2% 13.1% BTCJPY, RBCUSD, DOTUSD, GFIUSD, EULUSD
KAVAUSD 3 0.01014 3.95× 43.4% 9.8% RARIUSD, AIRUSD, REQUSD, RENUSD, BLZUSD
REQUSD 4 0.00937 3.65× 40.1% 29.8% RBCUSD, QIUSD, 1INCHUSD, DIMOUSD, NEONUSD
AIRUSD 5 0.00924 3.60× 45.0% 13.9% DIMOUSD, KAVAUSD, SEAMUSD, ETHAUD, XMRUSD
MXCUSD 6 0.00915 3.57× 46.0% 38.3% ETHAUD, HBARUSD, NEOUSD, PAXGUSD, SPELLUSD
DNTUSD 7 0.00907 3.54× 44.7% 8.7% NEONUSD, NEXOUSD, PAXGUSD, XAUTUSD, AEVOUSD
XAUTUSD 8 0.00890 3.47× 44.5% 24.9% BADGERUSD, MASKUSD, XDCUSD, SEIEUR, AERGOUSD
LITUSD 9 0.00874 3.41× 36.2% 11.3% SEAMUSD, MXCUSD, ZETACHAINUSD, MNTUSD, SPAUSD
TRXUSD 10 0.00822 3.21× 37.5% 23.1% CQTUSD, AUSDTUSD, XRTUSD, APEUSD, ANKRUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-01-20

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
MVUSD 0.011890.00458 +0.00731
CQTUSD 0.010810.00364 +0.00717
DNTUSD 0.009070.00219 +0.00688
BSXUSD 0.008150.00214 +0.00601
MXCUSD 0.009150.00322 +0.00592

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
SBRUSD 0.004530.01387 -0.00934
SGBUSD 0.004850.01294 -0.00809
PNKUSD 0.004430.01050 -0.00607
FLRUSD 0.002090.00749 -0.00540
PAXGUSD 0.006940.01206 -0.00512

Foreign exchange

DOPUSD was the most central name, carrying 14.11× the influence of an average node across 849 pairs.

pairs
849
Density
0.059
Clustering
0.353
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 0.01662 14.11× 3.7% 1.1% GBPRSD, RSDGBP, JPYRSD, CHFRSD, CLPCOP
GBPXPF 2 0.01219 10.35× 5.2% 6.0% COPMXN, TWDCHF, USDTWD, TWDTHB, TWDKRW
USDSOS 3 0.00886 7.52× 4.5% 1.7% USDPEN, ARSCLP, CLPARS, GHSGBP, ARSPEN
CNYINR 4 0.00811 6.88× 7.4% 0.8% SEKILS, BRLKRW, JPYILS, ILSJPY, PLNILS
GBPMUR 5 0.00806 6.84× 7.3% 0.2% SEKILS, PLNILS
CNYSGD 6 0.00755 6.41× 13.6% 0.1% GBPXPF
SGDARS 7 0.00674 5.72× 17.2% 1.8% RUBKRW, BWPZAR, GBPXPF, RUBJPY, RUBCAD
ARSEUR 8 0.00641 5.44× 9.6% 2.7% PENARS, EURARS, SCRGBP, XAUEUR, ILSPLN
CADARS 9 0.00631 5.36× 18.2% 3.2% GBPXPF, BWPZAR, IDRMYR, RUBJPY, USDRUB
USDARS 10 0.00628 5.33× 15.9% 2.1% BWPZAR, RUBKRW, GBPXPF, RUBCAD, CHFRUB

Rising influence vs 2026-01-20

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPXPF 0.012190.00052 +0.01167
DOPUSD 0.016620.00981 +0.00681
CNYINR 0.008110.00230 +0.00581
USDSOS 0.008860.00351 +0.00535
SGDARS 0.006740.00165 +0.00509

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AUDBRL 0.001240.02222 -0.02098
CADBRL 0.001090.01737 -0.01628
KRWBRL 0.001040.01625 -0.01521
CLPGBP 0.000210.00941 -0.00919
GBPCLP 0.000210.00937 -0.00916

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.