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Daily network digest

Monday, May 18, 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 3.26× the influence of an average node across 1492 stocks.

stocks
1492
Density
0.187
Clustering
0.446
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 0.00218 3.26× 32.1% 8.7% CUBE, WES, DRI, AES, AAPL
SCHW 2 0.00202 3.02× 36.6% 18.0% SYK, ELS, CMS, WRB, USFD
CB 3 0.00201 3.00× 34.5% 19.5% DOX, GDDY, CSQ, ELS, AM
CPT 4 0.00199 2.96× 34.9% 12.7% DCI, FTNT, SR, NDSN, BNS
REG 5 0.00195 2.90× 33.3% 18.7% PEG, SCHW, ROP, PAGP, ADP
WTM 6 0.00192 2.87× 32.5% 19.7% CSQ, SEIC, CL, PFG, LBTYK
STWD 7 0.00179 2.68× 25.4% 16.5% RSG, CPT, VTR, PEN, HCA
BRK.B 8 0.00179 2.67× 28.5% 18.1% BATRA, VTR, GL, NLY, RPRX
RGA 9 0.00178 2.65× 30.9% 14.4% CPT, AVB, SPG, DRI, UDR
HIG 10 0.00176 2.63× 28.7% 15.4% AVY, CWAN, HST, USAC, FWONK

Rising influence vs 2026-05-15

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AM 0.001750.00010 +0.00165
PM 0.001390.00010 +0.00129
EXE 0.001240.00010 +0.00114
ESI 0.001240.00010 +0.00114
ACI 0.001220.00010 +0.00112

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ETN 0.000100.00147 -0.00137
CF 0.000100.00129 -0.00119
CLX 0.000100.00119 -0.00109
PJT 0.000100.00119 -0.00109
ULTA 0.000100.00115 -0.00105

Cryptocurrency

SWFTCUSD was the most central name, carrying 5.60× the influence of an average node across 378 assets.

assets
378
Density
0.140
Clustering
0.389
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 0.01482 5.60× 65.3% 12.2% CTXUSD, REPUSD, XYOUSD, NYMUSD, CHZUSD
HOPRUSD 2 0.01256 4.75× 61.8% 20.4% GFIUSD, SRMUSD, FXSUSD, ARPAUSD, COMPUSD
DNTUSD 3 0.01157 4.37× 51.7% 11.1% REPUSD, MVUSD, MXCUSD, OMNIUSD, BCHEUR
SUKUUSD 4 0.01048 3.96× 54.6% 29.4% YFIUSD, RAREUSD, OMGUSD, FLRUSD, HNTUSD
OMNIUSD 5 0.00944 3.57× 46.7% 22.5% SHPINGUSD, RARIEUR, BNCUSD, BSXUSD, KNCUSD
CTXUSD 6 0.00922 3.49× 41.6% 17.5% OMGUSD, RADUSD, PYRUSD, SWFTCUSD, RENUSD
MATHUSD 7 0.00864 3.27× 41.1% 15.9% BODENUSD, MNDEUSD, CTXUSD, BCHUSD, BCHNUSD
XRTUSD 8 0.00845 3.19× 44.3% 18.8% ARPAUSD, KASUSD, IDEXUSD, GSTUSD, PROUSD
MXCUSD 9 0.00828 3.13× 44.3% 37.7% FOXUSD, HBARUSD, PNGUSD, ELAUSD, NEOUSD
BODENUSD 10 0.00820 3.10× 45.9% 37.1% AXSUSD, UMAUSD, SWELLUSD, BLZUSD, ACAUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-05-17

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
HOPRUSD 0.012560.00596 +0.00660
MATHUSD 0.008640.00232 +0.00632
SWFTCUSD 0.014820.00864 +0.00618
CTXUSD 0.009220.00314 +0.00609
OMNIUSD 0.009440.00385 +0.00559

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUTUSD 0.006740.01217 -0.00543
CXTUSD 0.001590.00692 -0.00534
SBRUSD 0.006300.01126 -0.00496
AURORAUSD 0.001400.00633 -0.00492
NCTUSD 0.004570.00936 -0.00479

Foreign exchange

ZMWZAR was the most central name, carrying 6.72× the influence of an average node across 545 pairs.

pairs
545
Density
0.042
Clustering
0.424
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 0.01233 6.72× 14.9% 11.6% MYRIDR, NOKRUB, DOPGBP, RUBCHF, INRMYR
ZARNGN 2 0.00962 5.24× 14.2% 11.6% XAUBRL, RUBMXN, MXNRUB, USDRUB, NOKRUB
EURRUB 3 0.00961 5.24× 3.5% 1.7% UGXZAR, USDFJD, COPCLP, USDUYU, GBPUYU
USDMUR 4 0.00813 4.43× 4.2% 2.9% COPMXN, JPYRSD, CADZAR, KWDEUR, EGPJPY
UYUEUR 5 0.00765 4.17× 4.2% 0.9% GBPNPR, GBPBTN, EURMUR, MXNCLP, EGPEUR
USDUYU 6 0.00748 4.08× 5.9% 1.5% COPDKK, CADCOP, GBPCOP, DKKCOP, DOPUSD
GBPUYU 7 0.00742 4.04× 6.3% 1.5% COPDKK, DOPUSD, CADCOP, DKKCOP, GBPCOP
UYUGBP 8 0.00734 4.00× 6.3% 1.5% COPDKK, CADCOP, DOPUSD, GBPCOP, DKKCOP
ARSAUD 9 0.00732 3.99× 16.0% 9.6% XAGJPY, XAGGBP, XAGMXN, XAGINR, XAGTRY
EGPZAR 10 0.00642 3.50× 12.5% 9.6% XAUZAR, USDNGN, THBTWD, TWDEUR, AUDTWD

Rising influence vs 2026-05-15

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZMWZAR 0.012330.00489 +0.00744
EURRUB 0.009610.00242 +0.00719
USDMUR 0.008130.00201 +0.00612
ZARNGN 0.009620.00379 +0.00583
CHFTHB 0.006360.00141 +0.00496

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDEGP 0.002110.02107 -0.01896
ARSCOP 0.000640.00756 -0.00692
ZARINR 0.002140.00800 -0.00586
XAGARS 0.002460.00742 -0.00496
ZARMYR 0.001080.00574 -0.00466

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.