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Daily network digest

Friday, May 1, 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

EVRG was the most central name, carrying 3.00× the influence of an average node across 1494 stocks.

stocks
1494
Density
0.197
Clustering
0.443
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
EVRG 1 0.00201 3.00× 29.5% 12.1% FRT, CPT, SUI, HD, AFG
PBA 2 0.00195 2.92× 29.3% 14.7% NNI, PCAR, AGNC, GATX, TTEK
WEC 3 0.00191 2.85× 30.8% 18.4% UNP, HUBB, ADP, ACM, IBOC
TD 4 0.00185 2.76× 27.6% 8.5% EXLS, ESNT, ITRI, MFC, MKL
PRI 5 0.00183 2.73× 33.8% 18.9% LNT, SEIC, SUI, PNW, FERG
SLF 6 0.00177 2.64× 27.3% 14.1% HSIC, REG, WES, FE, J
AEP 7 0.00175 2.61× 31.3% 20.0% ZTS, SNA, HUBB, SOBO, TJX
BATRK 8 0.00174 2.60× 27.5% 16.5% HUBB, MCD, ITT, MO, ARMK
LNT 9 0.00172 2.57× 30.0% 16.3% TRP, SNA, JXN, IEP, SUI
BKH 10 0.00172 2.56× 31.4% 15.1% BATRA, SKT, CHD, RJF, AMH

Rising influence vs 2026-04-29

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
LNC 0.001190.00010 +0.00109
VST 0.001180.00010 +0.00108
INTU 0.001180.00010 +0.00108
THO 0.001160.00010 +0.00106
MRK 0.001150.00010 +0.00105

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TKO 0.000100.00134 -0.00124
BKR 0.000100.00117 -0.00107
BIIB 0.000100.00114 -0.00104
PRVA 0.000100.00111 -0.00101
TPL 0.000100.00110 -0.00100

Cryptocurrency

MVUSD was the most central name, carrying 5.67× the influence of an average node across 401 assets.

assets
401
Density
0.117
Clustering
0.355
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
MVUSD 1 0.01415 5.67× 57.0% 39.5% MEWUSD, BTCGBP, NYMUSD, ASTUSD, SEIEUR
GOMININGUSD 2 0.01310 5.25× 51.5% 18.5% SGBUSD, IOTUSD, XYOUSD, PUNDIXUSD, TUSD
REQUSD 3 0.01257 5.04× 50.5% 11.5% BCHGBP, BCHEUR, ATOMUSD, BCHUSD, XCNUSD
XAUTUSD 4 0.01201 4.82× 53.8% 27.8% HFTUSD, MASKUSD, GALAUSD, DEXTUSD, PRIMEUSD
ELAUSD 5 0.01092 4.38× 48.5% 33.5% HFTUSD, OGNUSD, PUNDIXUSD, HIGHUSD, TURBOUSD
PAXGUSD 6 0.01040 4.17× 48.5% 25.8% MASKUSD, JUPUSD, DEXTUSD, GALAUSD, DOTUSD
MOONUSD 7 0.00939 3.76× 41.5% 13.3% SUNUSD, REQUSD, PONDUSD, RSRUSD, ABTUSD
NEXOUSD 8 0.00880 3.53× 40.8% 27.8% XRPAUD, GARIUSD, IDEXUSD, LINKUSD, PAXGUSD
BTRSTUSD 9 0.00848 3.40× 39.0% 15.5% WBTCUSD, FARMUSD, REQUSD, ALPHAUSD, SUKUUSD
UNFIUSD 10 0.00796 3.19× 35.5% 17.5% CELRUSD, BCHUSD, BCHNUSD, BCHGBP, MOONUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-04-30

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GOMININGUSD 0.013100.00257 +0.01053
REQUSD 0.012570.00293 +0.00964
MVUSD 0.014150.00638 +0.00777
XAUTUSD 0.012010.00605 +0.00596
SUNUSD 0.007640.00189 +0.00575

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
MATHUSD 0.001700.00824 -0.00654
OMNIUSD 0.002930.00845 -0.00552
RENUSD 0.002450.00777 -0.00532
LCXUSD 0.003300.00861 -0.00532
UOSUSD 0.003570.00883 -0.00526

Foreign exchange

XAURUB was the most central name, carrying 4.53× the influence of an average node across 509 pairs.

pairs
509
Density
0.052
Clustering
0.373
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
XAURUB 1 0.00889 4.53× 19.7% 10.6% AUDARS, ARSAUD, BWPZAR, ARSCAD, ZARBWP
ZMWZAR 2 0.00856 4.36× 27.4% 12.8% IDRUSD, IDREUR, USDIDR, JPYIDR, MYRIDR
SCRUSD 3 0.00817 4.16× 4.1% 4.3% USDSCR, RUBPLN, USDSOS, RUBNOK, USDGHS
GBPUYU 4 0.00769 3.91× 8.7% 3.1% CADCOP, DOPUSD, DKKCOP, COPDKK, GBPCOP
UYUGBP 5 0.00765 3.89× 8.9% 2.8% CADCOP, DOPUSD, GBPNGN, COPDKK, GBPCOP
USDUYU 6 0.00765 3.89× 9.1% 3.1% GBPNGN, GBPCOP, COPDKK, CADCOP, DOPUSD
EURILS 7 0.00759 3.86× 13.6% 15.6% HKDJPY, JPYUSD, USDJPY, XAUZAR, INRJPY
SCRGBP 8 0.00749 3.81× 5.7% 4.9% USDSOS, RUBPLN, RUBNOK, USDNAD, USDGHS
EURRUB 9 0.00707 3.60× 7.1% 3.5% ARSCOP, GBPETB, LRDGBP, ARSPEN, GHSUSD
XAUAUD 10 0.00701 3.57× 18.5% 9.3% CHFARS, ARSAUD, ARSCHF, BWPZAR, AUDARS

Rising influence vs 2026-04-30

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
SCRUSD 0.008170.00139 +0.00678
SCRGBP 0.007490.00170 +0.00579
TRYJPY 0.005890.00065 +0.00524
XAUAUD 0.007010.00191 +0.00510
ZARTHB 0.005970.00131 +0.00465

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
PENCAD 0.004920.01759 -0.01267
JPYTHB 0.000510.01101 -0.01050
USDEGP 0.001590.01117 -0.00958
RUBUSD 0.000860.00677 -0.00591
PENGBP 0.004900.01015 -0.00524

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.