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Daily network digest

Wednesday, April 29, 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

RGA was the most central name, carrying 3.14× the influence of an average node across 1493 stocks.

stocks
1493
Density
0.190
Clustering
0.440
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 0.00210 3.14× 29.5% 14.4% WTM, GBDC, CM, ESE, CDP
ED 2 0.00192 2.87× 30.8% 15.1% DOX, BATRK, OGS, SUN, CR
CSQ 3 0.00192 2.87× 30.9% 5.8% PFE, CFR, EWBC, ARW, HRB
NWS 4 0.00191 2.85× 35.1% 20.5% AON, NI, NHI, JCI, ICE
STN 5 0.00187 2.80× 29.8% 11.3% SCI, MTB, V, MCD, CNP
APG 6 0.00185 2.76× 29.8% 13.7% FTV, CVX, CR, DRI, AVB
BNS 7 0.00174 2.59× 28.0% 13.9% EXC, IDA, WTRG, HIG, PFG
UDR 8 0.00171 2.56× 30.4% 14.1% PECO, MAIN, RGA, YUM, WES
SO 9 0.00170 2.54× 27.9% 16.2% BCE, BXMT, DOX, ACM, SUI
CB 10 0.00168 2.50× 26.5% 20.0% CTVA, INGR, EXC, AVB, AMT

Rising influence vs 2026-04-28

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TKO 0.001340.00010 +0.00124
BKR 0.001170.00010 +0.00107
BIIB 0.001140.00010 +0.00104
TPL 0.001100.00010 +0.00100
FULT 0.001100.00010 +0.00100

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
LNC 0.000100.00122 -0.00111
VST 0.000100.00121 -0.00111
THO 0.000100.00120 -0.00110
INTU 0.000100.00119 -0.00109
MRK 0.000100.00119 -0.00109

Cryptocurrency

XAUTUSD was the most central name, carrying 5.18× the influence of an average node across 402 assets.

assets
402
Density
0.130
Clustering
0.368
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
XAUTUSD 1 0.01287 5.18× 63.1% 22.2% XRPUSD, HNTUSD, RAREUSD, DIAUSD, ORCAUSD
PAXGUSD 2 0.01187 4.77× 59.4% 20.4% KEYUSD, GLMRUSD, XRPUSD, ORCAUSD, DIAUSD
MVUSD 3 0.01091 4.39× 50.1% 30.7% DIAUSD, LRCUSD, APEUSD, AIOZUSD, SUKUUSD
SBRUSD 4 0.01035 4.16× 47.6% 19.0% C98USD, RARIEUR, COWUSD, HOPRUSD, MORPHOUSD
MNGOUSD 5 0.00892 3.59× 44.9% 43.6% BICOUSD, CROUSD, OXTUSD, ACAUSD, LRCUSD
REPUSD 6 0.00891 3.58× 45.9% 19.2% CQTUSD, FARMUSD, IOUSD, TREMPUSD, ACSUSD
PNKUSD 7 0.00871 3.50× 45.6% 27.2% VOXELUSD, SGBUSD, MNDEUSD, SWFTCUSD, SRMUSD
TIMEUSD 8 0.00849 3.41× 51.9% 14.2% NYMUSD, XMRUSD, FETUSD, PROUSD, YFIUSD
LTCBTC 9 0.00844 3.39× 43.6% 5.5% PRIMEUSD, ACSUSD, SBRUSD, ALCXUSD, RADUSD
SGBUSD 10 0.00832 3.34× 43.4% 8.5% ALICEUSD, PAXGUSD, ARBUSD, STRDUSD, REPV2USD

Rising influence vs 2026-04-28

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TIMEUSD 0.008490.00143 +0.00706
CXTUSD 0.006850.00199 +0.00486
LTCBTC 0.008440.00372 +0.00472
MNGOUSD 0.008920.00427 +0.00465
ACSUSD 0.005820.00159 +0.00423

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
REQUSD 0.002380.01346 -0.01108
ELAUSD 0.002470.01043 -0.00795
GOMININGUSD 0.004650.01178 -0.00713
BTRSTUSD 0.003190.00782 -0.00463
MOONUSD 0.004220.00875 -0.00453

Foreign exchange

ZMWZAR was the most central name, carrying 5.88× the influence of an average node across 544 pairs.

pairs
544
Density
0.074
Clustering
0.389
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
ZMWZAR 1 0.01081 5.88× 23.0% 13.8% ZARMYR, MYRIDR, CHFRUB, RUBCHF, JPYRUB
ZARNGN 2 0.00766 4.17× 19.0% 16.0% XAUEUR, XAUBRL, RUBCAD, RUBMXN, XAUGBP
KRWTHB 3 0.00630 3.43× 12.0% 3.9% THBINR, DKKINR, INRKRW, ZARINR, KRWINR
USDBWP 4 0.00628 3.41× 9.0% 7.4% IDRTHB, SCRGBP, GBPCDF, CDFGBP, JPYINR
XAUAUD 5 0.00624 3.39× 22.8% 13.1% PLNNOK, CZKNOK, RUBJPY, ARSCAD, BRLCLP
RUBDKK 6 0.00619 3.37× 8.8% 4.4% EURRUB, CLPARS, GBPZMW, ARSCLP, ARSCOP
ZAREGP 7 0.00593 3.22× 19.5% 12.7% XAUEUR, XAUZAR, XAUGBP, ZARTWD, XAUAUD
SEKRUB 8 0.00592 3.22× 10.3% 5.5% ARSCLP, CLPARS, EURSCR, ARSPEN, GBPZMW
EURARS 9 0.00580 3.16× 9.6% 6.3% CLPARS, ARSCLP, GBPCDF, CDFGBP, CDFUSD
RUBNOK 10 0.00563 3.06× 10.1% 5.2% ARSCLP, CLPARS, UGXZAR, ZARUGX, EURSCR

Rising influence vs 2026-04-28

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZARNGN 0.007660.00157 +0.00609
USDBWP 0.006280.00219 +0.00409
RUBDKK 0.006190.00270 +0.00348
EURCDF 0.004130.00084 +0.00329
CADRUB 0.004600.00139 +0.00321

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAURUB 0.002140.00769 -0.00554
EURILS 0.002380.00737 -0.00499
EURTJS 0.002190.00690 -0.00471
XAUSAR 0.001870.00544 -0.00357
USDTZS 0.001900.00533 -0.00343

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.