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Daily network digest

Thursday, January 22, 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 3.17× the influence of an average node across 1493 stocks.

stocks
1493
Density
0.172
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 0.00212 3.17× 26.3% 12.8% MCK, L, AGNC, RNR, O
OHI 2 0.00179 2.68× 30.5% 16.0% JKHY, INGR, DPZ, O, BJ
CME 3 0.00176 2.62× 30.3% 19.8% OGE, ALLE, SPGI, NNN, OTIS
CSX 4 0.00164 2.45× 22.7% 13.7% V, CL, TRNO, DIS, IDA
LNT 5 0.00159 2.38× 23.8% 16.0% ROP, SNA, BSM, MORN, CTAS
CL 6 0.00158 2.37× 26.8% 14.1% BK, JNJ, HTGC, BYD, CIGI
ROP 7 0.00158 2.36× 22.6% 13.8% BNS, STE, CME, ADT, SSB
EVRG 8 0.00158 2.36× 21.8% 11.3% FRT, ADC, EXLS, MA, SBCF
UNP 9 0.00157 2.35× 24.5% 18.5% TRP, VOYA, VNT, FTS, SOBO
COST 10 0.00157 2.35× 29.9% 11.3% VLTO, LECO, AWK, TXT, DOV

Rising influence vs 2026-01-21

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AYI 0.001360.00010 +0.00126
GEN 0.001330.00010 +0.00123
WH 0.001240.00010 +0.00114
IRM 0.001230.00010 +0.00113
MTZ 0.001220.00010 +0.00112

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
DBX 0.000100.00146 -0.00136
FHN 0.000100.00144 -0.00133
BTSG 0.000100.00128 -0.00118
BKR 0.000100.00128 -0.00118
COKE 0.000100.00125 -0.00115

Cryptocurrency

REQUSD was the most central name, carrying 5.79× the influence of an average node across 407 assets.

assets
407
Density
0.122
Clustering
0.366
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 0.01422 5.79× 54.4% 19.7% TUSD, JTOUSD, TBTCUSD, TOKEUSD, OGNUSD
NYMUSD 2 0.01232 5.01× 54.9% 12.8% REPV2USD, ADXUSD, ETCUSD, BTCJPY, PUFFERUSD
GOMININGUSD 3 0.01132 4.61× 50.0% 28.3% DEXTUSD, AKTUSD, UMAUSD, WEUR, ICXUSD
LCXUSD 4 0.01067 4.34× 48.8% 11.8% GOMININGUSD, LQTYUSD, XMRUSD, PIRATEUSD, AEROUSD
INVUSD 5 0.00991 4.03× 51.5% 20.2% TUSD, BSXUSD, RARIUSD, HDXUSD, XTZUSD
MNGOUSD 6 0.00985 4.01× 44.6% 19.7% CELRUSD, EGLDUSD, TUSD, DOGEUSD, GARIUSD
BSXUSD 7 0.00962 3.92× 46.8% 8.1% PAXGUSD, SGBUSD, QNTUSD, XRTUSD, REQUSD
ASMUSD 8 0.00898 3.65× 43.1% 4.9% XMRUSD, SHDWUSD, BITUSD, SUIUSD, JUNOUSD
PROUSD 9 0.00786 3.20× 41.6% 23.9% HNTUSD, ATOMUSD, PNKUSD, RENUSD, AVTUSD
ELAUSD 10 0.00784 3.19× 37.2% 34.2% PLUUSD, BTTUSD, XCNUSD, MEUSD, SAMOUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-01-21

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GOMININGUSD 0.011320.00307 +0.00825
NYMUSD 0.012320.00530 +0.00701
ASMUSD 0.008980.00249 +0.00649
INVUSD 0.009910.00404 +0.00587
LCXUSD 0.010670.00539 +0.00528

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
MVUSD 0.003280.01189 -0.00862
CQTUSD 0.003000.01081 -0.00781
DNTUSD 0.002440.00907 -0.00663
KAVAUSD 0.003520.01014 -0.00662
SRMUSD 0.001080.00742 -0.00634

Foreign exchange

GBPXPF was the most central name, carrying 12.91× the influence of an average node across 858 pairs.

pairs
858
Density
0.048
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
GBPXPF 1 0.01504 12.91× 4.8% 7.9% NZDTRY, TWDNZD, TWDCHF, BRLSEK, CHFKRW
TWDSEK 2 0.01256 10.78× 6.3% 5.4% GBPBRL, KRWBRL, RONCHF, CHFRON, BRLJPY
BRLJPY 3 0.01058 9.08× 12.8% 7.2% BRLUSD, CADRUB, USDRUB, RUBUSD, RUBCAD
JPYBRL 4 0.01030 8.84× 13.4% 7.0% USDRUB, BRLUSD, CADRUB, RUBCAD, RUBUSD
MYRZAR 5 0.00803 6.89× 21.9% 0.2% GBPXPF, TWDSEK
CNYSGD 6 0.00789 6.77× 21.7% 1.1% GBPXPF, BRLSEK, TWDSEK, KRWBRL, GBPBRL
CNYCAD 7 0.00782 6.71× 21.7% 1.1% TWDSEK, BRLSEK, GBPBRL, KRWBRL, GBPXPF
PENMXN 8 0.00775 6.65× 21.7% 0.2% GBPXPF, TWDSEK
ARSMXN 9 0.00756 6.49× 25.1% 1.9% BRLJPY, JPYBRL, GBPXPF, BRLCHF, TWDSEK
BRLCHF 10 0.00695 5.96× 7.1% 19.6% RUBUSD, BRLUSD, USDRUB, TZSZAR, IDRZAR

Rising influence vs 2026-01-21

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TWDSEK 0.012560.00077 +0.01178
BRLJPY 0.010580.00110 +0.00948
JPYBRL 0.010300.00109 +0.00921
MYRZAR 0.008030.00131 +0.00673
CNYCAD 0.007820.00152 +0.00629

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPMUR 0.000560.00806 -0.00750
CNYINR 0.001100.00811 -0.00701
USDSOS 0.002160.00886 -0.00670
SEKILS 0.000630.00609 -0.00546
PLNILS 0.000410.00564 -0.00523

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.