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Daily network digest

Thursday, April 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

RGA was the most central name, carrying 3.19× the influence of an average node across 1496 stocks.

stocks
1496
Density
0.188
Clustering
0.438
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
RGA 1 0.00213 3.19× 30.2% 15.2% WTM, GBDC, CM, CPK, WAB
NWS 2 0.00202 3.02× 35.8% 19.9% NNN, PFG, SR, AGO, AON
ED 3 0.00190 2.84× 28.8% 15.7% DOX, MCK, OGS, SUN, NWSA
CSQ 4 0.00187 2.79× 30.6% 5.9% PFE, DLR, TRP, AIG, AVT
STN 5 0.00186 2.79× 31.3% 12.1% SCI, COR, STT, V, GL
APG 6 0.00184 2.75× 28.6% 13.0% L, CVX, FTV, TD, CR
BNS 7 0.00176 2.63× 28.4% 13.7% EXC, WTRG, KRG, RGA, L
UDR 8 0.00169 2.53× 31.0% 15.5% MAIN, AFG, SWX, MKL, COR
RY 9 0.00165 2.47× 24.9% 10.0% CNA, CDP, VZ, ARW, LHX
FTS 10 0.00165 2.46× 24.1% 7.7% SEIC, AMP, EXPO, CLX, YUM

Rising influence vs 2026-04-15

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TKO 0.001280.00010 +0.00118
BKR 0.001210.00010 +0.00111
WK 0.001170.00010 +0.00107
FULT 0.001120.00010 +0.00102
MPC 0.001100.00010 +0.00100

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
INTU 0.000100.00125 -0.00115
VST 0.000100.00122 -0.00112
GPI 0.000100.00120 -0.00110
THO 0.000100.00120 -0.00110
MRK 0.000100.00119 -0.00109

Cryptocurrency

MVUSD was the most central name, carrying 5.09× the influence of an average node across 401 assets.

assets
401
Density
0.113
Clustering
0.362
Diameter
3

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 0.01269 5.09× 50.5% 41.0% GSTUSD, ASTUSD, 00USD, TBTCUSD, NYMUSD
REQUSD 2 0.01245 4.99× 48.3% 15.5% BCHEUR, BCHGBP, SCUSD, SUNUSD, BCHUSD
GOMININGUSD 3 0.01236 4.96× 51.2% 15.8% SGBUSD, QIUSD, XYOUSD, EOSUSD, BEAMUSD
ELAUSD 4 0.01143 4.59× 50.3% 31.5% HFTUSD, PLUUSD, FLOKIUSD, COMPUSD, OGNUSD
XAUTUSD 5 0.01059 4.25× 45.0% 26.3% BCHGBP, GALAUSD, BCHEUR, DEXTUSD, DOTUSD
PAXGUSD 6 0.00997 4.00× 43.3% 28.5% DEXTUSD, YGGUSD, GALAUSD, DOTUSD, BCHGBP
MOONUSD 7 0.00996 3.99× 45.8% 13.3% ALGOUSD, ABTUSD, SHDWUSD, POWRUSD, RSRUSD
UNFIUSD 8 0.00989 3.97× 45.0% 18.5% CELRUSD, RNDRUSD, APENFTUSD, MOONUSD, TRXUSD
BSXUSD 9 0.00974 3.90× 44.5% 8.0% XAUTUSD, PAXGUSD, SGBUSD, AMPUSD, REPUSD
BTRSTUSD 10 0.00963 3.86× 42.8% 15.3% WBTCUSD, ALPHAUSD, REQUSD, SUKUUSD, ASTUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-04-15

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GOMININGUSD 0.012360.00319 +0.00917
REQUSD 0.012450.00447 +0.00798
MOONUSD 0.009960.00302 +0.00694
GARIUSD 0.008700.00238 +0.00632
UNFIUSD 0.009890.00359 +0.00630

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
RENUSD 0.003370.01230 -0.00894
CTXUSD 0.003010.00957 -0.00656
DNTUSD 0.002800.00856 -0.00576
UOSUSD 0.002980.00862 -0.00564
LCXUSD 0.002970.00830 -0.00533

Foreign exchange

PENCAD was the most central name, carrying 11.44× the influence of an average node across 582 pairs.

pairs
582
Density
0.047
Clustering
0.372
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
PENCAD 1 0.01965 11.44× 19.6% 1.2% JPYTHB, INRJPY, ZARBRL, BRLZAR, EURBRL
ZARCNY 2 0.01221 7.11× 8.1% 2.1% BRLKRW, USDILS, ILSUSD, ILSAED, ILSJPY
USDEGP 3 0.01184 6.89× 7.9% 0.7% PENCAD, CADHUF, HUFCAD, CHFARS
JPYTHB 4 0.01043 6.07× 7.6% 4.1% RONZAR, RONCHF, ZARRON, CHFRON, USDRON
GBPPEN 5 0.01021 5.94× 9.6% 1.2% INRJPY, JPYTHB, EURBRL, CHFBRL, JPYBRL
PENGBP 6 0.01018 5.92× 9.6% 1.4% INRJPY, JPYTHB, EURBRL, CHFBRL, ZARBWP
INRJPY 7 0.01005 5.85× 7.9% 7.4% COPBRL, COPMXN, BRLPEN, BWPZAR, BRLCOP
CHFBRL 8 0.01000 5.82× 9.3% 5.5% RUBUSD, IDRHKD, IDRCAD, IDRCHF, CADRUB
RUBUSD 9 0.00985 5.73× 8.3% 9.1% ARSMXN, KRWBRL, BRLUSD, USDBRL, INRGBP
CADRUB 10 0.00847 4.93× 9.6% 4.0% MXNARS, ARSMXN, SGDARS, RUBJPY, GBPARS

Rising influence vs 2026-04-15

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
PENCAD 0.019650.00472 +0.01494
USDEGP 0.011840.00091 +0.01094
ZARCNY 0.012210.00304 +0.00917
ILSZAR 0.007980.00164 +0.00635
JPYTHB 0.010430.00413 +0.00630

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
KRWTHB 0.001490.01350 -0.01201
ZARNGN 0.002860.01020 -0.00734
RUBEUR 0.005230.01139 -0.00616
RUBZAR 0.002190.00671 -0.00452
ZAREGP 0.001090.00540 -0.00431

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.