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Daily network digest

Wednesday, August 12, 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

BHF was the most central name, carrying 3.46× the influence of an average node across 1495 stocks.

stocks
1495
Density
0.237
Clustering
0.517
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
BHF 1 0.00231 3.46× 51.7% 12.0% SKT, PEP, BPOP, CPRT, BLK
GSAT 2 0.00203 3.03× 61.6% 29.3% FTS, ADT, AFG, CBSH, EMA
EQIX 3 0.00197 2.95× 61.5% 13.1% O, TRP, BPOP, SPG, BCO
UDR 4 0.00193 2.89× 50.5% 12.0% TRP, PEP, CNP, NDAQ, MAIN
SKT 5 0.00188 2.81× 50.5% 10.3% BHF, TXNM, BIP, OTTR, UTHR
AEP 6 0.00180 2.70× 46.5% 12.2% TRNO, SKT, WBS, ALLE, BRX
ESS 7 0.00179 2.67× 49.5% 6.1% RGA, COST, RCI, FER, VOYA
AES 8 0.00175 2.61× 49.7% 12.9% INVH, MWA, GL, ADT, RF
AMH 9 0.00174 2.60× 57.6% 14.5% APG, AFG, AEP, BHF, TRP
PNW 10 0.00174 2.60× 48.9% 9.5% TU, SCHW, VRSN, NWSA, CHH

Volatility watch

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

SymbolScore Recent volatility
RBA 0.9427 2.70%
UBER 0.9288 3.97%
EHC 0.9280 5.30%
DORM 0.9226 3.10%
CON 0.9219 5.54%
MUSA 0.9059 5.16%
ABNB 0.9057 7.48%
LFST 0.9025 4.81%
NBIX 0.8978 2.23%
POST 0.8886 6.95%

Rising influence vs 2026-08-11

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
FSK 0.001600.00010 +0.00150
MPWR 0.001570.00010 +0.00147
EXEL 0.001550.00010 +0.00145
CSW 0.001530.00010 +0.00143
BHF 0.002310.00089 +0.00142

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TECH 0.000100.00194 -0.00184
VST 0.000100.00158 -0.00148
REGN 0.000100.00150 -0.00140
IVZ 0.000100.00147 -0.00137
PLXS 0.000100.00143 -0.00132

Cryptocurrency

XAUTUSD was the most central name, carrying 6.55× the influence of an average node across 357 assets.

assets
357
Density
0.157
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
XAUTUSD 1 0.01835 6.55× 77.8% 21.3% BONKUSD, SAGAUSD, RAREUSD, LSKUSD, HNTUSD
PAXGUSD 2 0.01705 6.09× 74.2% 18.8% BONKUSD, ZRXUSD, SAGAUSD, RAREUSD, BONKEUR
AERGOUSD 3 0.00891 3.18× 51.1% 19.1% XAUTUSD, RSRUSD, PAXGUSD, PONDUSD, CFGUSD
NTRNUSD 4 0.00881 3.15× 50.3% 26.7% SGBUSD, SHPINGUSD, ENSUSD, OMGUSD, ELAUSD
CQTUSD 5 0.00843 3.01× 49.7% 27.5% GUSD, C98USD, TRACUSD, SAFEUSD, IDEXUSD
SGBUSD 6 0.00823 2.94× 45.5% 27.2% STRKUSD, XDCUSD, GTCUSD, SWELLUSD, ALICEUSD
LTCBTC 7 0.00804 2.87× 48.9% 6.5% ELAUSD, PRIMEUSD, UNFIUSD, CPOOLUSD, TRXUSD
SBRUSD 8 0.00791 2.82× 43.5% 20.2% UNFIUSD, HFTUSD, ILVUSD, DOGEUSD, NCTUSD
MULTIUSD 9 0.00789 2.82× 43.3% 27.0% C98USD, XAUTUSD, GLMUSD, PAXGUSD, CBETHUSD
SKYUSD 10 0.00759 2.71× 41.3% 16.9% GTCUSD, AXLUSD, TIAUSD, LCXUSD, PYRUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-08-11

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
CQTUSD 0.008430.00218 +0.00625
FXSUSD 0.006660.00196 +0.00470
XRPBTC 0.007060.00253 +0.00454
LTCBTC 0.008040.00357 +0.00447
VOXELUSD 0.005560.00133 +0.00422

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GOMININGUSD 0.002200.01017 -0.00797
REQUSD 0.002290.00984 -0.00755
AURORAUSD 0.002640.00819 -0.00555
WELLUSD 0.001560.00645 -0.00489
KP3RUSD 0.001400.00603 -0.00463

Foreign exchange

ZMWZAR was the most central name, carrying 5.40× the influence of an average node across 532 pairs.

pairs
532
Density
0.035
Clustering
0.387
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 5.40× 12.4% 9.2% ZARTRY, ZARNGN, XAUUSD, MYRNZD, KRWMYR
ZARINR 2 0.00949 5.05× 2.8% 0.4% ZMWZAR, XAUGBP
KRWRUB 3 0.00808 4.30× 17.7% 10.7% RUBGBP, RUBKRW, ARSAUD, ARSCAD, RUBJPY
USDEGP 4 0.00707 3.76× 14.1% 9.0% SEKINR, GBPHUF, HUFEUR, HUFCHF, CHFHUF
USDMUR 5 0.00622 3.31× 8.3% 1.5% MUREUR, AEDSEK, AUDFJD, ARSJPY, ARSCHF
XAUJPY 6 0.00598 3.18× 11.1% 4.9% ILSZAR, GBPNGN, USDMUR, DKKRUB, GBPTHB
XAUGBP 7 0.00592 3.15× 6.4% 11.3% XAURUB, AUDIDR, RUBKRW, KRWRUB, XAUZAR
LKRZAR 8 0.00562 2.99× 10.0% 8.7% ZARNGN, USDZAR, AEDZAR, ZARAED, COPBRL
ILSZAR 9 0.00553 2.94× 10.2% 5.5% ZARUSD, PENCAD, CLPGBP, GBPPEN, EGPUSD
UYUGBP 10 0.00548 2.92× 3.0% 1.7% GBPKZT, DKKCOP, GBPCOP, KZTGBP, COPCLP

Rising influence vs 2026-08-11

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZMWZAR 0.010150.00379 +0.00636
KRWRUB 0.008080.00232 +0.00576
ZARINR 0.009490.00400 +0.00549
XAUARS 0.005450.00058 +0.00487
ILSZAR 0.005530.00116 +0.00437

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDEGP 0.007070.01986 -0.01279
ARSCOP 0.001230.00965 -0.00842
KRWTHB 0.001980.00839 -0.00641
XAGARS 0.002760.00821 -0.00545
RUBUSD 0.001130.00575 -0.00463

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.