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Daily network digest

Friday, February 6, 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

STE was the most central name, carrying 2.90× the influence of an average node across 1494 stocks.

stocks
1494
Density
0.176
Clustering
0.427
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
STE 1 0.00194 2.90× 30.7% 13.5% ALLE, EQR, AVA, PECO, TFC
BNS 2 0.00185 2.76× 28.7% 13.8% EA, AFG, NLY, TFSL, ARCC
TD 3 0.00181 2.71× 25.7% 13.7% JKHY, MKL, LSTR, BK, MLM
RPRX 4 0.00175 2.61× 27.3% 18.4% LH, DIS, ECL, FSV, DLB
REG 5 0.00172 2.57× 33.7% 16.8% CPK, SEIC, BIP, OHI, ICE
FTS 6 0.00172 2.56× 22.8% 17.7% AMH, EPD, EQIX, WTM, WES
ALLE 7 0.00170 2.54× 27.2% 15.0% AME, ABCB, CB, VRSK, DTM
SCHW 8 0.00170 2.54× 30.5% 16.0% EVRG, VRSK, MLM, CME, MCO
HIG 9 0.00170 2.53× 29.5% 15.5% ALLE, MLM, DLB, CUZ, DTM
RGA 10 0.00166 2.48× 29.4% 13.9% SO, TJX, CFR, EXPD, PNW

Rising influence vs 2026-02-05

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
DB 0.001400.00010 +0.00130
FG 0.001390.00010 +0.00129
ZM 0.001330.00010 +0.00123
PM 0.001300.00010 +0.00120
MTCH 0.001270.00010 +0.00117

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ETN 0.000100.00161 -0.00151
IRTC 0.000100.00135 -0.00125
AN 0.000100.00130 -0.00120
BBU 0.000100.00124 -0.00114
MPC 0.000100.00124 -0.00114

Cryptocurrency

REQUSD was the most central name, carrying 7.14× the influence of an average node across 407 assets.

assets
407
Density
0.114
Clustering
0.363
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 0.01754 7.14× 59.4% 13.1% ELAUSD, AURORAUSD, JTOUSD, UOSUSD, AXLUSD
MNGOUSD 2 0.01156 4.70× 48.5% 30.8% GARIUSD, NANOUSD, CELOUSD, SHPINGUSD, CELRUSD
ELAUSD 3 0.01149 4.68× 47.0% 26.8% BTTUSD, PLUUSD, HNTUSD, SAMOUSD, PONKEUSD
MOONUSD 4 0.01123 4.57× 46.8% 9.1% KRLUSD, KAVAUSD, STRDUSD, GLMRUSD, BANDUSD
NYMUSD 5 0.01078 4.39× 47.3% 14.0% PUFFERUSD, ETCUSD, CQTUSD, REPV2USD, RENUSD
GARIUSD 6 0.00958 3.90× 42.4% 24.6% INVUSD, XMRUSD, UMAUSD, BEAMUSD, STRDUSD
NEXOUSD 7 0.00946 3.85× 40.9% 14.3% MASKUSD, PLUUSD, BITUSD, SBRUSD, FLRUSD
GOMININGUSD 8 0.00945 3.85× 37.2% 24.6% EOSUSD, SPELLUSD, CTXUSD, XYOUSD, QIUSD
SWEATUSD 9 0.00933 3.80× 48.3% 8.9% NCTUSD, SGBUSD, MNGOUSD, SOLUSD, BTRSTUSD
BSXUSD 10 0.00933 3.80× 44.6% 11.6% SGBUSD, PAXGUSD, LCXUSD, NYMUSD, REPUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-02-05

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ELAUSD 0.011490.00334 +0.00816
MOONUSD 0.011230.00343 +0.00781
REQUSD 0.017540.01054 +0.00700
ASMUSD 0.008560.00237 +0.00619
NEXOUSD 0.009460.00330 +0.00616

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
SRMUSD 0.000880.00908 -0.00820
MVUSD 0.004720.01259 -0.00786
EURRUSD 0.002550.00987 -0.00732
LITUSD 0.002890.00893 -0.00604
CQTUSD 0.003790.00949 -0.00569

Foreign exchange

AUDBRL was the most central name, carrying 13.53× the influence of an average node across 829 pairs.

pairs
829
Density
0.048
Clustering
0.447
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 0.01632 13.53× 37.9% 9.3% NZDIDR, USDRUB, HKDTHB, USDCHF, CNYCAD
CADBRL 2 0.01137 9.43× 18.1% 5.0% PENCAD, CHFRUB, RUBCHF, KRWRUB, MXNRUB
KRWBRL 3 0.01133 9.39× 21.3% 6.0% GBPCLP, RONZAR, CLPGBP, ZARRON, COPUSD
PENCAD 4 0.00858 7.12× 27.4% 6.0% USDRUB, USDCHF, THBUSD, GBPHTG, CNYSGD
COPMXN 5 0.00837 6.94× 26.8% 8.6% GBPHTG, HKDTHB, PENMXN, USDCHF, NZDSEK
GBPCLP 6 0.00827 6.86× 26.4% 8.3% HKDTHB, USDCHF, PENMXN, THBUSD, THBHKD
CLPGBP 7 0.00827 6.85× 26.4% 8.1% HKDTHB, GBPHTG, NZDSEK, DKKPKR, THBUSD
COPUSD 8 0.00817 6.77× 26.6% 8.3% HKDTHB, USDCHF, THBHKD, PENMXN, GBPHTG
COPBRL 9 0.00813 6.74× 26.8% 17.1% NZDSEK, HKDDKK, HKDEUR, CZKUSD, USDCZK
DOPUSD 10 0.00807 6.69× 6.6% 2.2% CHFRSD, GBPRSD, JPYRSD, RSDGBP, GHSUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-02-05

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AUDBRL 0.016320.00135 +0.01497
CADBRL 0.011370.00282 +0.00855
CHFTHB 0.007280.00051 +0.00678
PENCAD 0.008580.00223 +0.00635
BRLEUR 0.006700.00043 +0.00627

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPXPF 0.000340.00973 -0.00940
TWDSEK 0.001040.00877 -0.00773
EURILS 0.002010.00777 -0.00576
MYRZAR 0.000330.00586 -0.00554
GBPBRL 0.000350.00482 -0.00448

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.