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Daily network digest

Friday, May 15, 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 3.05× the influence of an average node across 1493 stocks.

stocks
1493
Density
0.187
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
RGA 1 0.00204 3.05× 29.7% 13.1% BMO, WTM, CMS, SLGN, WAB
ED 2 0.00198 2.96× 31.4% 16.2% DOX, SUN, BATRK, OGS, REYN
CSQ 3 0.00198 2.95× 29.8% 5.8% PFE, HOMB, D, CNA, DOV
APG 4 0.00188 2.81× 32.2% 16.0% WRB, CR, PFE, DRI, CVX
STN 5 0.00188 2.80× 28.6% 13.3% SCI, MTB, CTAS, NBIX, MA
NWS 6 0.00186 2.77× 34.6% 20.2% NNN, NHI, AXS, PFG, SBRA
CB 7 0.00185 2.77× 28.3% 18.2% BAP, BRK.B, VMC, AVB, CWAN
PNW 8 0.00184 2.75× 27.7% 22.1% UNP, CDP, AIZ, O, EMR
BNS 9 0.00180 2.69× 28.5% 13.3% EXC, IDA, WTRG, PEP, EPD
BRK.A 10 0.00178 2.65× 27.9% 14.3% BK, BATRK, ACGL, BSX, NFG

Rising influence vs 2026-05-14

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
CON 0.001350.00010 +0.00125
CF 0.001290.00010 +0.00119
BKR 0.001190.00010 +0.00109
PJT 0.001190.00010 +0.00109
TKO 0.001150.00010 +0.00105

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
COO 0.000100.00143 -0.00132
GPI 0.000100.00138 -0.00128
INTU 0.000100.00135 -0.00125
IONS 0.000100.00132 -0.00122
MRK 0.000100.00131 -0.00121

Cryptocurrency

SWFTCUSD was the most central name, carrying 5.32× the influence of an average node across 378 assets.

assets
378
Density
0.139
Clustering
0.392
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
SWFTCUSD 1 0.01407 5.32× 62.3% 10.6% CTXUSD, REPV2USD, REPUSD, NYMUSD, XYOUSD
HOPRUSD 2 0.01311 4.96× 62.3% 19.1% SRMUSD, FXSUSD, GFIUSD, COMPUSD, LRCUSD
DNTUSD 3 0.01133 4.28× 50.4% 8.5% MVUSD, REPUSD, BCHEUR, REZUSD, OMNIUSD
SUKUUSD 4 0.01015 3.84× 52.0% 21.8% YFIUSD, RAREUSD, OMGUSD, FLRUSD, OCEANUSD
MATHUSD 5 0.00923 3.49× 42.7% 13.8% BODENUSD, MNDEUSD, CTXUSD, FIDAUSD, ATOMUSD
OCEANUSD 6 0.00915 3.46× 46.9% 11.4% SWFTCUSD, SHPINGUSD, DNTUSD, FORTHUSD, BONDUSD
CTXUSD 7 0.00895 3.38× 41.4% 15.4% SWFTCUSD, RADUSD, SGBUSD, OMGUSD, PYRUSD
XRTUSD 8 0.00876 3.31× 46.7% 23.1% ARPAUSD, QTUMUSD, PROUSD, TREMPUSD, COWUSD
MXCUSD 9 0.00854 3.23× 46.2% 46.7% HBARUSD, PNGUSD, NEOUSD, FOXUSD, MEMEUSD
OMNIUSD 10 0.00854 3.23× 43.8% 20.7% SHPINGUSD, AMPUSD, FOXUSD, MNGOUSD, CROUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-05-14

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
MATHUSD 0.009230.00229 +0.00694
HOPRUSD 0.013110.00618 +0.00693
SWFTCUSD 0.014070.00816 +0.00591
CTXUSD 0.008950.00306 +0.00588
DNTUSD 0.011330.00580 +0.00553

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
PIRATEUSD 0.003360.00885 -0.00549
CXTUSD 0.001510.00687 -0.00536
SBRUSD 0.005880.01119 -0.00531
XAUTUSD 0.006730.01178 -0.00505
JUNOUSD 0.001550.00625 -0.00470

Foreign exchange

USDEGP was the most central name, carrying 11.70× the influence of an average node across 555 pairs.

pairs
555
Density
0.039
Clustering
0.411
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
USDEGP 1 0.02107 11.70× 8.1% 1.4% ZARINR, ZARMYR, TZSZAR, XAGARS, ZARIDR
ZARINR 2 0.00800 4.44× 2.9% 8.8% USDBRL, NOKINR, INRJPY, DKKINR, INRKRW
ARSCOP 3 0.00756 4.20× 2.7% 3.1% LRDGBP, CHFBWP, CDFUSD, CDFGBP, BWPGBP
XAGARS 4 0.00742 4.12× 10.5% 4.9% CHFPKR, TRYCHF, ZARTHB, INRCHF, XAUKRW
KRWTHB 5 0.00689 3.82× 5.4% 1.6% THBINR, XAUSAR, XAUJPY, XAUEUR, XAUINR
XAUEUR 6 0.00683 3.79× 8.3% 4.9% KRWTHB, NZDTWD, KRWBRL, AEDJPY, THBGBP
RUBUSD 7 0.00601 3.34× 11.7% 7.4% XAURUB, USDBRL, HUFZAR, INRGBP, DKKINR
XAURUB 8 0.00579 3.21× 15.7% 8.8% AUDARS, ZARAED, ZARNGN, OMRZAR, AEDZAR
ZARMYR 9 0.00574 3.19× 0.5% 8.1% INRKRW, KRWINR, JPYUSD, COPBRL, TRYCHF
XAUJPY 10 0.00565 3.14× 7.9% 6.7% BRLCAD, THBINR, KRWBRL, KRWTHB, ZARCNY

Rising influence vs 2026-05-14

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDEGP 0.021070.00228 +0.01879
ARSCOP 0.007560.00068 +0.00688
ZARINR 0.008000.00246 +0.00554
XAGARS 0.007420.00212 +0.00530
ZARMYR 0.005740.00109 +0.00465

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZMWZAR 0.004890.01238 -0.00749
EURRUB 0.002420.00897 -0.00655
ZARNGN 0.003790.00957 -0.00578
ARSAUD 0.002510.00748 -0.00497
EGPZAR 0.001470.00632 -0.00485

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.