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Daily network digest

Wednesday, August 5, 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

BIP was the most central name, carrying 3.00× the influence of an average node across 1494 stocks.

stocks
1494
Density
0.246
Clustering
0.523
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
BIP 1 0.00201 3.00× 57.9% 14.4% IDA, BRO, FFIN, AFG, ASB
OMC 2 0.00200 2.99× 58.0% 19.7% APLE, AFG, WM, JCI, CSQ
AM 3 0.00196 2.93× 45.9% 13.1% MCD, SCHW, WSBC, PEN, VTR
AGNC 4 0.00191 2.85× 57.5% 11.8% CM, CPT, MPLX, EG, LBRDA
SWX 5 0.00187 2.79× 53.4% 8.1% DLB, EPD, ABT, FNB, AAPL
CB 6 0.00181 2.70× 53.2% 10.2% LAMR, INVH, MMM, ASB, MSA
BATRA 7 0.00179 2.67× 52.0% 10.0% EXPD, AMP, AMGN, DTM, VLY
ES 8 0.00178 2.66× 57.3% 12.6% CM, WM, JNJ, BRO, STN
MFC 9 0.00175 2.62× 50.4% 8.9% DPZ, YUM, CNS, CDP, SHW
PEN 10 0.00173 2.58× 47.8% 11.3% GD, CFR, UGI, EQIX, TOWN

Volatility watch

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

SymbolScore Recent volatility
RBA 0.9696 6.74%
NYT 0.9420 6.25%
CTVA 0.9403 5.99%
GXO 0.9241 4.88%
MSFT 0.9188 6.00%
FSS 0.9176 4.75%
LECO 0.9155 2.95%
NBIX 0.9136 5.05%
MAR 0.9055 4.19%
MEDP 0.9044 1.28%

Rising influence vs 2026-08-04

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
CWEN 0.001660.00010 +0.00156
MTDR 0.001630.00010 +0.00153
JXN 0.001530.00010 +0.00143
AMTM 0.001510.00010 +0.00141
MANU 0.001480.00010 +0.00138

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
SARO 0.000100.00157 -0.00147
CSW 0.000100.00150 -0.00140
THO 0.000100.00148 -0.00138
ALGN 0.000100.00143 -0.00133
TECK 0.000100.00142 -0.00132

Cryptocurrency

XAUTUSD was the most central name, carrying 6.97× the influence of an average node across 362 assets.

assets
362
Density
0.140
Clustering
0.376
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 0.01924 6.97× 75.6% 26.0% JASMYUSD, OMGUSD, XRPUSD, DENTUSD, MASKUSD
PAXGUSD 2 0.01697 6.14× 74.0% 28.5% MASKUSD, JUPUSD, JASMYUSD, GRTUSD, BADGERUSD
UNFIUSD 3 0.01096 3.97× 52.4% 25.8% SUPERUSD, CROUSD, AIOZUSD, SNXUSD, VANRYUSD
SUKUUSD 4 0.01065 3.86× 53.7% 25.5% NANOUSD, SHIBUSD, DNTUSD, FISUSD, PYTHUSD
GOMININGUSD 5 0.01053 3.81× 48.8% 15.8% SNXUSD, SGBUSD, SPAUSD, DNTUSD, GALAUSD
FISUSD 6 0.01001 3.62× 46.3% 10.5% DEGENUSD, STGUSD, C98USD, CRVUSD, ARKMUSD
REQUSD 7 0.00987 3.57× 49.3% 17.5% UNFIUSD, BCHUSD, KP3RUSD, BCHGBP, SEIEUR
AURORAUSD 8 0.00899 3.26× 38.5% 17.5% BATUSD, UNFIUSD, BONKEUR, XRPAUD, BONKUSD
OMNIUSD 9 0.00880 3.18× 39.6% 29.4% MDTUSD, ENJUSD, NEIROUSD, VARAUSD, FLRUSD
ELAUSD 10 0.00790 2.86× 42.7% 45.7% CGLDUSD, AIOZUSD, HFTUSD, 1INCHUSD, SAGAUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-08-04

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUTUSD 0.019240.00518 +0.01406
PAXGUSD 0.016970.00540 +0.01157
UNFIUSD 0.010960.00321 +0.00775
GOMININGUSD 0.010530.00403 +0.00650
AURORAUSD 0.008990.00285 +0.00615

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
OCEANUSD 0.002280.00989 -0.00761
TRACUSD 0.001680.00891 -0.00723
ACAUSD 0.007180.01196 -0.00478
LCXUSD 0.002130.00649 -0.00436
ACSUSD 0.001510.00582 -0.00431

Foreign exchange

ZMWZAR was the most central name, carrying 5.47× the influence of an average node across 539 pairs.

pairs
539
Density
0.034
Clustering
0.384
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 0.01015 5.47× 13.6% 8.9% ZARTRY, ZARNGN, XAUUSD, CHFARS, KRWMYR
ZARINR 2 0.00866 4.67× 2.8% 0.4% ZMWZAR, XAUGBP
KRWRUB 3 0.00814 4.39× 17.5% 10.2% ARSAUD, RUBGBP, ARSCAD, RUBKRW, XAUAUD
USDMUR 4 0.00623 3.36× 8.2% 1.7% MUREUR, AEDSEK, AUDFJD, ARSJPY, ARSCHF
USDEGP 5 0.00623 3.36× 13.4% 6.7% SEKINR, CHFHUF, GBPHUF, HUFEUR, HUFCHF
CLPBRL 6 0.00596 3.21× 4.6% 2.8% DOPUSD, COPDKK, GBPLKR, LKRGBP, LKRUSD
EURILS 7 0.00576 3.10× 10.0% 4.3% XAUJPY, XAUMXN, XAUEUR, ARSZAR, GBPSCR
LKRZAR 8 0.00571 3.08× 10.6% 8.7% USDZAR, ZARNGN, AEDZAR, ZARAED, OMRZAR
ARSMXN 9 0.00570 3.07× 12.5% 10.2% XAGUSD, XAGMXN, XAGCAD, XAGTRY, XAGJPY
XAUGBP 10 0.00564 3.04× 6.9% 12.1% XAURUB, XAUAUD, AUDIDR, RUBKRW, XAUZAR

Rising influence vs 2026-08-03

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZARINR 0.008660.00208 +0.00658
KRWRUB 0.008140.00281 +0.00533
CLPBRL 0.005960.00153 +0.00443
XAGUSD 0.005210.00113 +0.00408
XAUARS 0.005530.00149 +0.00405

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GHSEUR 0.001190.00706 -0.00587
EURZMW 0.001820.00702 -0.00521
CHFTHB 0.001180.00586 -0.00468
USDUYU 0.001370.00548 -0.00411
ZARJPY 0.000960.00477 -0.00381

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.