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Daily network digest

Thursday, May 21, 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 3.22× the influence of an average node across 1492 stocks.

stocks
1492
Density
0.190
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
RY 1 0.00216 3.22× 31.7% 10.0% CFR, AVB, WES, CUBE, DRI
CPT 2 0.00206 3.08× 36.0% 13.4% LXP, DCI, SR, LBTYK, JHG
SCHW 3 0.00198 2.96× 36.6% 18.8% ELS, AES, STWD, BMI, VRSK
CB 4 0.00197 2.94× 33.6% 18.8% DOX, GDDY, FTV, CSQ, AEE
WTM 5 0.00192 2.86× 35.3% 19.7% CSQ, CL, SEIC, LBTYK, KMB
AMH 6 0.00190 2.84× 30.7% 16.0% WPC, ELS, INGR, NHI, CSX
REG 7 0.00187 2.78× 33.0% 20.0% PEG, BIP, SCHW, ADP, PAGP
BRK.B 8 0.00186 2.77× 28.2% 18.1% BATRA, GL, VTR, NLY, STN
RGA 9 0.00180 2.69× 32.3% 16.4% CPT, CMS, SPG, EXPD, CMI
STE 10 0.00177 2.65× 30.5% 15.9% MAA, JHG, WTM, VICI, AXS

Rising influence vs 2026-05-19

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
FTNT 0.001370.00010 +0.00127
CNX 0.001290.00010 +0.00118
MDU 0.001220.00010 +0.00112
LYV 0.001180.00010 +0.00108
GAP 0.001160.00010 +0.00106

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AEP 0.000830.00228 -0.00145
INTU 0.000100.00129 -0.00119
GPI 0.000100.00128 -0.00118
INCY 0.000100.00120 -0.00110
WWD 0.000100.00113 -0.00103

Cryptocurrency

SWFTCUSD was the most central name, carrying 5.59× the influence of an average node across 377 assets.

assets
377
Density
0.137
Clustering
0.387
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 0.01483 5.59× 64.6% 11.7% CTXUSD, XYOUSD, REPUSD, NYMUSD, REPV2USD
HOPRUSD 2 0.01299 4.90× 60.6% 18.1% GFIUSD, SRMUSD, 00USD, ARPAUSD, REZUSD
SUKUUSD 3 0.01126 4.25× 55.9% 25.5% MLNUSD, YFIUSD, SCUSD, HNTUSD, RAREUSD
DNTUSD 4 0.01111 4.19× 48.9% 8.8% MVUSD, REPUSD, BCHEUR, ALEOUSD, MXCUSD
OMNIUSD 5 0.00971 3.66× 46.3% 21.0% SHPINGUSD, RARIEUR, AMPUSD, TRBUSD, NANOUSD
XRTUSD 6 0.00954 3.60× 48.1% 18.6% ARPAUSD, METISUSD, COWUSD, GSTUSD, MNGOUSD
CTXUSD 7 0.00941 3.55× 42.6% 17.0% PYRUSD, RADUSD, OMGUSD, SCRTUSD, C98USD
BODENUSD 8 0.00893 3.37× 47.9% 43.9% QTUMUSD, SWELLUSD, LINKUSD, UMAUSD, BLZUSD
MXCUSD 9 0.00860 3.24× 46.8% 33.8% MEMEUSD, PNGUSD, EGLDUSD, TAOUSD, SPELLUSD
TRACUSD 10 0.00857 3.23× 45.5% 23.7% WIFUSD, SPELLUSD, KAVAUSD, GUSD, SRMUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-05-20

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
HOPRUSD 0.012990.00652 +0.00647
SWFTCUSD 0.014830.00860 +0.00622
TRACUSD 0.008570.00236 +0.00621
CTXUSD 0.009410.00331 +0.00610
BODENUSD 0.008930.00298 +0.00595

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUTUSD 0.006020.01197 -0.00595
CXTUSD 0.002020.00771 -0.00569
PIRATEUSD 0.004350.00964 -0.00529
JUNOUSD 0.001400.00631 -0.00492
AURORAUSD 0.001480.00640 -0.00491

Foreign exchange

ZMWZAR was the most central name, carrying 6.24× the influence of an average node across 547 pairs.

pairs
547
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 0.01141 6.24× 15.2% 11.4% MYRIDR, DOPGBP, NOKRUB, RUBCHF, ZARIDR
ZARNGN 2 0.00959 5.24× 12.6% 11.4% XAUBRL, NOKRUB, LKRZAR, RUBMXN, XAUZAR
EURRUB 3 0.00887 4.85× 3.1% 1.8% UGXZAR, USDFJD, COPCLP, ZMWUSD, UYUGBP
UYUEUR 4 0.00754 4.12× 4.2% 0.9% GBPNPR, EURMUR, GBPBTN, MXNCLP, EGPEUR
ARSAUD 5 0.00726 3.97× 17.0% 8.8% XAGTRY, XAGJPY, XAGINR, XAGSAR, XAUCAD
UYUGBP 6 0.00714 3.91× 6.2% 1.5% COPDKK, DOPUSD, CADCOP, DKKCOP, GBPCOP
USDMUR 7 0.00698 3.82× 4.2% 2.7% COPMXN, JPYRSD, CADZAR, GBPSCR, EGPJPY
USDUYU 8 0.00694 3.79× 6.2% 1.5% COPDKK, DOPUSD, CADCOP, DKKCOP, GBPCOP
GBPUYU 9 0.00691 3.78× 6.2% 1.5% COPDKK, DOPUSD, CADCOP, GBPCOP, DKKCOP
EGPZAR 10 0.00629 3.44× 12.8% 9.3% XAUZAR, USDNGN, TWDEUR, TWDUSD, THBTWD

Rising influence vs 2026-05-20

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZARNGN 0.009590.00175 +0.00784
USDUYU 0.006940.00097 +0.00597
UYUEUR 0.007540.00226 +0.00528
CHFTHB 0.006070.00111 +0.00496
UYUGBP 0.007140.00256 +0.00458

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZARINR 0.002370.01132 -0.00895
ZARARS 0.002450.00913 -0.00668
BWPZAR 0.002920.00907 -0.00615
PENCAD 0.001450.00590 -0.00446
ILSZAR 0.003320.00764 -0.00431

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.