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Daily network digest

Monday, August 3, 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

TECH was the most central name, carrying 2.99× the influence of an average node across 1493 stocks.

stocks
1493
Density
0.253
Clustering
0.529
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
TECH 1 0.00201 2.99× 61.5% 32.5% INGR, GFL, BRK.B, AWK, BRK.A
AEP 2 0.00200 2.98× 55.4% 14.2% PBA, IRT, MDLZ, RCI, ACT
AIZ 3 0.00198 2.96× 63.2% 12.3% SWX, MDLZ, EMA, REG, COR
EMA 4 0.00190 2.83× 50.2% 5.0% WMB, RACE, LAMR, LBRDK, FFIV
APLE 5 0.00184 2.75× 55.5% 12.9% GFL, ACT, ADP, WM, MRP
WBD 6 0.00181 2.71× 45.5% 22.5% CSQ, WES, NI, GFL, CPRT
CPT 7 0.00178 2.65× 51.7% 12.4% TRP, EIX, KO, TXNM, ARCC
ATO 8 0.00176 2.62× 49.2% 7.6% KO, PBA, CUBE, H, BRO
NTRS 9 0.00173 2.59× 55.6% 11.5% BHF, SNA, SOBO, NOC, ATR
BMO 10 0.00173 2.58× 47.0% 10.3% ES, ACGL, SLGN, FULT, ITGR

Volatility watch

Highest modelled probability of elevated volatility ahead. A research output, not a directional call.

SymbolScore Recent volatility
MSFT 0.9381 5.91%
ITRI 0.9276 11.36%
ITGR 0.9274 7.84%
SLGN 0.9039 6.21%
DLB 0.8937 5.61%
ALNY 0.8921 16.27%
GTES 0.8691 5.39%
TW 0.8568 5.65%
SYK 0.8528 4.41%
AXS 0.8471 5.58%

Rising influence vs 2026-07-31

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TECH 0.002010.00010 +0.00191
MAT 0.001630.00010 +0.00153
EQH 0.001490.00010 +0.00139
VST 0.001470.00010 +0.00137
SNDR 0.001450.00010 +0.00134

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BIP 0.001000.00232 -0.00132
LAUR 0.000100.00141 -0.00131
APO 0.000100.00139 -0.00129
NPO 0.000100.00136 -0.00126
MATX 0.000100.00134 -0.00123

Cryptocurrency

XAUTUSD was the most central name, carrying 7.53× the influence of an average node across 362 assets.

assets
362
Density
0.143
Clustering
0.369
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 0.02081 7.53× 78.4% 24.9% RAREUSD, EWTUSD, BONKUSD, RARIEUR, MLNUSD
PAXGUSD 2 0.01887 6.83× 76.5% 22.7% RAREUSD, BONKUSD, BLURUSD, INJUSD, KEYUSD
AERGOUSD 3 0.00985 3.56× 52.1% 13.9% RSRUSD, KP3RUSD, ZROUSD, XAUTUSD, VANRYUSD
SBRUSD 4 0.00905 3.27× 43.8% 23.0% HFTUSD, TRXUSD, UNFIUSD, ILVUSD, SRMUSD
SGBUSD 5 0.00804 2.91× 39.9% 23.8% STRKUSD, ARBUSD, SAMOUSD, SWELLUSD, GTCUSD
FISUSD 6 0.00775 2.81× 39.1% 10.2% BICOUSD, ALEOUSD, ZROUSD, ACAUSD, LTCBTC
CQTUSD 7 0.00774 2.80× 39.1% 33.5% C98USD, GUSD, TRACUSD, IDEXUSD, FIDAUSD
SKYUSD 8 0.00766 2.77× 38.0% 14.7% AXLUSD, GTCUSD, VOXELUSD, LCXUSD, NKNUSD
LTCBTC 9 0.00750 2.72× 46.3% 5.5% ACSUSD, PRIMEUSD, JUPUSD, PAXGUSD, XAUTUSD
XRPBTC 10 0.00738 2.67× 43.2% 8.9% STGUSD, RSRUSD, L3USD, CQTUSD, MNTUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-08-02

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
CQTUSD 0.007740.00213 +0.00561
SBRUSD 0.009050.00370 +0.00535
XRPBTC 0.007380.00238 +0.00499
C98USD 0.006160.00185 +0.00431
LTCBTC 0.007500.00361 +0.00390

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
REQUSD 0.002060.01072 -0.00865
GOMININGUSD 0.002150.01030 -0.00815
AURORAUSD 0.003030.00920 -0.00617
KNCUSD 0.002420.00754 -0.00511
XRPAUD 0.001940.00681 -0.00487

Foreign exchange

ZMWZAR was the most central name, carrying 6.63× the influence of an average node across 561 pairs.

pairs
561
Density
0.037
Clustering
0.403
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 0.01183 6.63× 12.9% 10.4% XAUBRL, DOPGBP, JPYRUB, XAUZAR, USDEGP
ZARNGN 2 0.00771 4.33× 9.6% 6.8% SGDZAR, USDRUB, XAUBRL, NOKRUB, MXNZAR
USDMUR 3 0.00749 4.20× 3.6% 2.9% COPMXN, CADZAR, KWDEUR, JPYRSD, HUFUSD
EGPZAR 4 0.00710 3.98× 10.5% 8.6% SGDZAR, MXNZAR, ZARSGD, LKRZAR, KRWRUB
GHSEUR 5 0.00706 3.96× 0.5% 0.5% EURZMW, EURPYG, EURGHS
EURZMW 6 0.00702 3.94× 1.1% 0.2% GHSEUR
ARSAUD 7 0.00650 3.64× 14.8% 8.8% XAGMXN, XAGGBP, XAGBRL, BWPZAR, XAUKRW
XAUAUD 8 0.00611 3.43× 13.4% 6.8% AUDIDR, CZKNOK, PLNNOK, KRWRUB, AUDBRL
CHFTHB 9 0.00586 3.29× 5.5% 0.5% EURINR, JPYINR, XAUJPY
UYUGBP 10 0.00571 3.20× 6.3% 1.4% DKKCOP, DOPUSD, COPDKK, CADCOP, COPCLP

Rising influence vs 2026-07-31

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZMWZAR 0.011830.00439 +0.00743
GHSEUR 0.007060.00056 +0.00649
USDMUR 0.007490.00201 +0.00548
EGPZAR 0.007100.00206 +0.00504
EURZMW 0.007020.00204 +0.00498

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDEGP 0.003110.02244 -0.01933
ARSCOP 0.002910.00947 -0.00656
TZSZAR 0.002450.00853 -0.00608
KRWTHB 0.002710.00837 -0.00566
SEKINR 0.000640.00542 -0.00478

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.