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Daily network digest

Friday, April 17, 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

RY was the most central name, carrying 3.52× the influence of an average node across 1496 stocks.

stocks
1496
Density
0.179
Clustering
0.437
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
RY 1 0.00236 3.52× 33.4% 7.2% FSV, VMC, CFR, WPC, NLY
CPT 2 0.00214 3.21× 35.1% 13.7% DCI, FTNT, IDXX, CDP, STZ
SCHW 3 0.00206 3.09× 33.8% 15.3% KIM, NDSN, MLM, TRNO, VRSK
WTM 4 0.00200 2.99× 31.6% 18.1% SEIC, RY, CSQ, LBTYK, MTG
UDR 5 0.00190 2.84× 29.2% 12.8% XYL, BAC, DCI, AM, FSV
REG 6 0.00189 2.83× 32.1% 18.5% PEG, BIP, ADP, PAGP, GD
AM 7 0.00187 2.80× 33.4% 16.1% BNS, FR, RPRX, DOX, GIB
STE 8 0.00185 2.77× 31.8% 16.1% EQR, AVA, JHG, MAA, FE
TD 9 0.00184 2.76× 25.7% 9.8% ARCC, JKHY, BNS, FHN, PANW
EQR 10 0.00178 2.66× 27.0% 13.1% TD, TR, SLF, CSQ, BSX

Rising influence vs 2026-04-16

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AM 0.001870.00010 +0.00177
DB 0.001360.00010 +0.00126
ESI 0.001340.00010 +0.00124
KD 0.001310.00010 +0.00121
FG 0.001310.00010 +0.00121

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ETN 0.000100.00150 -0.00140
ACLX 0.000100.00122 -0.00112
CLX 0.000100.00118 -0.00108
LTH 0.000100.00118 -0.00108
INGM 0.000100.00118 -0.00108

Cryptocurrency

PNKUSD was the most central name, carrying 5.98× the influence of an average node across 401 assets.

assets
401
Density
0.116
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
PNKUSD 1 0.01492 5.98× 62.3% 22.3% SGBUSD, VOXELUSD, ANKRUSD, LUNAUSD, POWRUSD
XAUTUSD 2 0.01381 5.54× 60.0% 35.5% XRPUSD, RAREUSD, DIAUSD, ORCAUSD, HNTUSD
SBRUSD 3 0.01277 5.12× 51.0% 21.5% C98USD, HOPRUSD, MORPHOUSD, PIRATEUSD, IMXUSD
PAXGUSD 4 0.01277 5.12× 58.8% 34.0% KEYUSD, XRPUSD, ORCAUSD, GLMRUSD, DIAUSD
LTCBTC 5 0.01087 4.36× 49.3% 7.2% ACSUSD, PRIMEUSD, SBRUSD, XRTUSD, ABTUSD
MNGOUSD 6 0.01044 4.19× 49.0% 36.8% LRCUSD, FORTHUSD, ACAUSD, BICOUSD, FILUSD
XRTUSD 7 0.00911 3.66× 41.0% 39.5% NCTUSD, AXLUSD, HOPRUSD, KP3RUSD, EULUSD
SGBUSD 8 0.00883 3.54× 39.8% 13.8% APUUSD, ASMUSD, EULUSD, BONDUSD, ARBUSD
TRXUSD 9 0.00805 3.23× 43.0% 22.5% GARIUSD, ACAUSD, GMTUSD, MOODENGUSD, FOXUSD
SUNUSD 10 0.00797 3.20× 38.0% 18.3% PEPEUSD, CTSIUSD, FILUSD, ETH2XUSD, INVUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-04-16

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
PNKUSD 0.014920.00838 +0.00654
LTCBTC 0.010870.00449 +0.00638
MNGOUSD 0.010440.00412 +0.00633
TIMEUSD 0.007070.00133 +0.00574
SBRUSD 0.012770.00755 +0.00522

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
REQUSD 0.002760.01245 -0.00969
ELAUSD 0.003740.01143 -0.00770
MVUSD 0.006210.01269 -0.00648
BTRSTUSD 0.003380.00963 -0.00625
GOMININGUSD 0.006150.01236 -0.00621

Foreign exchange

PENGBP was the most central name, carrying 4.63× the influence of an average node across 538 pairs.

pairs
538
Density
0.042
Clustering
0.386
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
PENGBP 1 0.00861 4.63× 8.2% 1.1% CADBRL, BRLCAD, GBPARS, ARSMXN, MXNARS
PENCAD 2 0.00859 4.62× 8.2% 1.3% MXNARS, ARSMXN, GBPRUB, GBPARS, ARSGBP
GBPPEN 3 0.00856 4.61× 8.2% 0.9% CADBRL, BRLCAD, ARSMXN, GBPARS, ZARBWP
GBPSCR 4 0.00776 4.18× 10.2% 6.0% RUBPLN, SEKRUB, XAUCAD, RUBDKK, XAGSAR
USDMUR 5 0.00764 4.11× 8.0% 1.1% AEDSEK, ZARCNY, ZARILS, ZARARS, ARSZAR
BRLCLP 6 0.00690 3.71× 7.6% 3.5% NOKRUB, ARSGBP, ARSAUD, ARSSGD, CHFARS
RUBJPY 7 0.00672 3.62× 14.7% 10.6% ZMWZAR, ARSAUD, THBAUD, CHFARS, CHFTRY
USDUYU 8 0.00617 3.32× 4.7% 2.0% GBPNPR, NPRGBP, BTNGBP, GBPBTN, GBPKZT
ZMWZAR 9 0.00616 3.32× 18.8% 9.3% GBPIDR, JPYIDR, IDREUR, USDIDR, IDRUSD
BRLCHF 10 0.00614 3.31× 5.4% 0.6% IDRAUD, IDRHKD, IDRCAD

Rising influence vs 2026-04-16

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDMUR 0.007640.00044 +0.00720
GBPSCR 0.007760.00159 +0.00617
BRLCLP 0.006900.00096 +0.00594
EURTJS 0.005710.00053 +0.00518
USDTZS 0.005500.00034 +0.00515

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
PENCAD 0.008590.01965 -0.01107
USDEGP 0.001730.01184 -0.01011
ZARCNY 0.002210.01221 -0.01001
JPYTHB 0.000670.01043 -0.00976
RUBUSD 0.000990.00985 -0.00886

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.