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Daily network digest

Monday, May 11, 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

AEP was the most central name, carrying 3.00× the influence of an average node across 1493 stocks.

stocks
1493
Density
0.201
Clustering
0.452
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
AEP 1 0.00201 3.00× 34.1% 19.8% ZTS, SNA, HUBB, TRP, CSQ
EVRG 2 0.00200 2.99× 31.1% 11.6% AFG, FRT, STT, ALLE, HD
PBA 3 0.00196 2.92× 30.2% 18.2% SNA, GATX, PNW, AGNC, TRV
SLF 4 0.00191 2.85× 30.3% 12.5% WES, REG, COST, HSIC, CHD
PRI 5 0.00183 2.73× 34.5% 19.7% SEIC, LNT, CMS, SUI, CTRE
BKH 6 0.00181 2.71× 35.4% 14.9% BATRA, RJF, SKT, CTAS, DE
WEC 7 0.00180 2.69× 30.3% 17.7% CME, AB, HUBB, DCI, WPC
TD 8 0.00179 2.68× 29.1% 9.3% MFC, EXLS, AWK, POR, BRX
MKL 9 0.00175 2.61× 31.7% 15.5% SKT, ROST, AB, GWW, CNO
ATO 10 0.00170 2.54× 30.0% 15.5% BATRK, PH, BATRA, HUBB, BRO

Rising influence vs 2026-05-08

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AEP 0.002010.00071 +0.00130
INTU 0.001220.00010 +0.00112
TXT 0.001220.00010 +0.00112
WSM 0.001160.00010 +0.00106
INCY 0.001150.00010 +0.00105

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
CNX 0.000100.00135 -0.00125
EXE 0.000100.00121 -0.00111
GAP 0.000100.00119 -0.00108
GME 0.000100.00117 -0.00107
TTC 0.000100.00115 -0.00105

Cryptocurrency

XAUTUSD was the most central name, carrying 5.25× the influence of an average node across 379 assets.

assets
379
Density
0.138
Clustering
0.379
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 0.01386 5.25× 70.1% 20.4% RAREUSD, KEYUSD, DIAUSD, XYOUSD, SYNUSD
PAXGUSD 2 0.01228 4.66× 63.0% 22.2% KEYUSD, GLMRUSD, RAREUSD, DIAUSD, SYNUSD
MVUSD 3 0.01140 4.32× 54.8% 32.8% MNTUSD, MANAUSD, FXSUSD, APEUSD, AIOZUSD
SBRUSD 4 0.01120 4.25× 53.2% 16.4% SANDUSD, RARIEUR, WELLUSD, COWUSD, IMXUSD
SKYUSD 5 0.00969 3.67× 47.4% 32.0% HNTUSD, OCEANUSD, NKNUSD, PHAUSD, BODENUSD
KEYUSD 6 0.00917 3.48× 47.4% 23.0% HOPRUSD, LQTYUSD, YFIUSD, AERGOUSD, AURORAUSD
NCTUSD 7 0.00903 3.42× 51.9% 16.7% LQTYUSD, FLRUSD, SUIUSD, FISUSD, KMNOUSD
PIRATEUSD 8 0.00878 3.33× 52.6% 8.2% BTRSTUSD, AVTUSD, BLZUSD, ZROUSD, BCHUSD
MNGOUSD 9 0.00844 3.20× 46.8% 39.9% BICOUSD, PROUSD, CROUSD, ALPHAUSD, OXTUSD
SWFTCUSD 10 0.00833 3.16× 46.0% 14.6% QNTUSD, NMRUSD, MVUSD, JUNOUSD, XMRUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-05-10

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
NCTUSD 0.009030.00218 +0.00685
TIMEUSD 0.008300.00206 +0.00624
ACSUSD 0.006920.00176 +0.00516
SBRUSD 0.011200.00618 +0.00502
CXTUSD 0.006830.00188 +0.00495

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
REQUSD 0.002610.01250 -0.00990
ELAUSD 0.002300.01027 -0.00797
GOMININGUSD 0.007270.01435 -0.00708
MOONUSD 0.003750.01053 -0.00678
DNTUSD 0.006430.01264 -0.00622

Foreign exchange

PENCAD was the most central name, carrying 10.05× the influence of an average node across 559 pairs.

pairs
559
Density
0.062
Clustering
0.388
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 0.01798 10.05× 25.8% 2.0% JPYTHB, INRJPY, ZARBRL, BRLZAR, JPYBRL
JPYTHB 2 0.01113 6.22× 11.5% 3.2% XAUJPY, CNYZAR, TRYZAR, AEDZAR, USDZAR
USDEGP 3 0.01008 5.63× 11.5% 1.1% PENCAD, PENGBP, GBPPEN, EURILS, ZARIDR
PENGBP 4 0.00955 5.34× 12.0% 1.4% JPYTHB, INRJPY, CHFBRL, EURBRL, XAGAUD
GBPPEN 5 0.00951 5.32× 12.0% 1.4% JPYTHB, INRJPY, XAUJPY, EURBRL, CHFBRL
INRJPY 6 0.00805 4.50× 13.4% 10.0% COPBRL, BRLPEN, BRLCOP, COPMXN, BWPZAR
USDSOS 7 0.00688 3.85× 6.1% 3.2% COPARS, ZARARS, AUDAED, ARSZAR, NZDAED
RUBUSD 8 0.00687 3.84× 17.2% 10.2% XAURUB, USDBRL, XAUBRL, KRWBRL, INRGBP
USDUYU 9 0.00680 3.80× 4.1% 2.3% GBPBTN, USDNPR, BTNGBP, NPRGBP, GBPNPR
XAUJPY 10 0.00670 3.74× 15.9% 18.6% EURILS, JPYUSD, RUBZAR, JPYHKD, USDJPY

Rising influence vs 2026-05-08

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
PENCAD 0.017980.00511 +0.01287
JPYTHB 0.011130.00093 +0.01020
USDEGP 0.010080.00153 +0.00855
RUBUSD 0.006870.00083 +0.00603
ZARCNY 0.006200.00104 +0.00517

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPSCR 0.001160.00724 -0.00608
UYUGBP 0.005470.01107 -0.00559
GBPUYU 0.005660.01118 -0.00552
EURILS 0.002870.00822 -0.00534
SCRUSD 0.001400.00668 -0.00528

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.