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Daily network digest

Friday, May 8, 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 3.41× the influence of an average node across 1492 stocks.

stocks
1492
Density
0.186
Clustering
0.442
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 0.00229 3.41× 33.1% 8.6% CUBE, WES, MSA, FSV, AAPL
CPT 2 0.00202 3.01× 34.9% 14.2% DCI, XYL, SR, FHN, ECL
SCHW 3 0.00198 2.95× 34.9% 17.3% AGNC, ELS, CINF, AER, TDS
WTM 4 0.00192 2.86× 32.5% 18.2% SEIC, LBTYK, CSQ, CL, MTG
REG 5 0.00186 2.77× 33.1% 18.8% PEG, ROP, SCHW, KMB, ADP
HIG 6 0.00182 2.71× 28.2% 15.6% DLB, FWONK, CWAN, AVY, JAZZ
STE 7 0.00182 2.71× 30.6% 13.8% ED, MAA, NI, JHG, FE
UDR 8 0.00178 2.66× 28.5% 14.0% XYL, BAC, AM, MET, TSN
AM 9 0.00176 2.63× 33.9% 15.4% BNS, FR, DRI, AVB, CL
CB 10 0.00174 2.60× 32.4% 20.0% DOX, FTS, KO, INVH, NI

Rising influence vs 2026-05-07

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AM 0.001760.00010 +0.00166
ESI 0.001270.00010 +0.00117
NUVL 0.001250.00010 +0.00115
PM 0.001230.00010 +0.00113
CPRX 0.001220.00010 +0.00112

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ETN 0.000100.00148 -0.00138
SLAB 0.000100.00119 -0.00109
LTH 0.000100.00118 -0.00108
CLX 0.000100.00117 -0.00107
KGS 0.000100.00117 -0.00107

Cryptocurrency

XAUTUSD was the most central name, carrying 5.42× the influence of an average node across 380 assets.

assets
380
Density
0.133
Clustering
0.374
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 0.01426 5.42× 70.2% 17.4% KEYUSD, XRPUSD, RAREUSD, DIAUSD, ORCAUSD
PAXGUSD 2 0.01283 4.88× 63.6% 17.9% KEYUSD, GLMRUSD, DIAUSD, RAREUSD, XRPUSD
MVUSD 3 0.01237 4.70× 58.8% 31.7% DIAUSD, RADUSD, MNTUSD, FXSUSD, DNTUSD
SBRUSD 4 0.01149 4.37× 51.5% 17.7% SANDUSD, WELLUSD, RARIEUR, C98USD, COWUSD
NCTUSD 5 0.00953 3.62× 50.9% 15.0% LQTYUSD, FISUSD, KMNOUSD, CPOOLUSD, FLRUSD
MNGOUSD 6 0.00933 3.55× 49.9% 41.7% BICOUSD, CROUSD, PROUSD, GMXUSD, ALPHAUSD
KEYUSD 7 0.00898 3.41× 46.4% 25.9% HOPRUSD, AERGOUSD, YFIUSD, LQTYUSD, POLSUSD
SWFTCUSD 8 0.00875 3.32× 47.8% 11.1% QNTUSD, JUNOUSD, MVUSD, SBRUSD, XAUTUSD
TIMEUSD 9 0.00863 3.28× 52.8% 19.5% FETUSD, XMRUSD, PROUSD, WELLUSD, ELAUSD
PIRATEUSD 10 0.00850 3.23× 49.6% 6.3% BTRSTUSD, BLZUSD, AVTUSD, BCHGBP, BCHNUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-05-07

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TIMEUSD 0.008630.00150 +0.00712
NCTUSD 0.009530.00264 +0.00689
SWFTCUSD 0.008750.00262 +0.00612
SBRUSD 0.011490.00602 +0.00548
ACSUSD 0.007050.00188 +0.00516

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
REQUSD 0.002740.01252 -0.00978
MOONUSD 0.003230.01076 -0.00753
ELAUSD 0.002580.00988 -0.00730
UNFIUSD 0.004560.01034 -0.00578
BSXUSD 0.002890.00816 -0.00527

Foreign exchange

GBPUYU was the most central name, carrying 5.63× the influence of an average node across 503 pairs.

pairs
503
Density
0.052
Clustering
0.368
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
GBPUYU 1 0.01118 5.63× 7.2% 2.4% COPDKK, CADCOP, COPCAD, GBPNGN, DKKCOP
UYUGBP 2 0.01107 5.57× 7.2% 2.2% CADCOP, DOPUSD, DKKCOP, COPCAD, COPDKK
XAURUB 3 0.00894 4.50× 19.3% 9.6% AUDARS, BWPZAR, ARSAUD, USDARS, ARSCAD
EURILS 4 0.00822 4.13× 14.3% 15.9% JPYUSD, HKDJPY, USDJPY, XAUZAR, INRJPY
ZMWZAR 5 0.00789 3.97× 25.7% 11.0% IDRUSD, IDREUR, JPYIDR, XAGJPY, USDIDR
AUDARS 6 0.00760 3.82× 23.9% 13.1% XAGUSD, PLNILS, XAGRUB, XAUCAD, XAGARS
GBPSCR 7 0.00724 3.64× 5.0% 2.6% SEKRUB, RUBDKK, RUBPLN, RUBNOK, EGPUSD
SCRUSD 8 0.00668 3.36× 5.0% 4.0% USDSCR, USDSOS, USDMUR, RUBPLN, USDNAD
XAUAUD 9 0.00655 3.30× 19.9% 8.8% CHFARS, ARSAUD, AUDARS, HKDARS, ZARBWP
ZARTHB 10 0.00634 3.19× 12.7% 1.6% EURILS, ZARINR, XAUAUD, XAUJPY, XAUBRL

Rising influence vs 2026-05-07

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPSCR 0.007240.00144 +0.00580
GBPUYU 0.011180.00593 +0.00526
UYUGBP 0.011070.00595 +0.00512
ZARTHB 0.006340.00133 +0.00501
XAUAUD 0.006550.00160 +0.00496

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
PENCAD 0.005110.01877 -0.01366
JPYTHB 0.000930.01199 -0.01106
USDEGP 0.001530.01097 -0.00944
RUBUSD 0.000830.00661 -0.00578
KRWTHB 0.001370.00705 -0.00568

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.