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Daily network digest

Monday, August 24, 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

WBD was the most central name, carrying 3.11× the influence of an average node across 1492 stocks.

stocks
1492
Density
0.245
Clustering
0.534
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
WBD 1 0.00208 3.11× 55.3% 22.9% NI, LIN, WAB, SO, CPRT
NTRS 2 0.00203 3.03× 57.2% 11.1% HON, SUI, AEG, AGNC, CPT
EXC 3 0.00195 2.91× 55.1% 10.9% IEX, GWW, DCI, CRBG, UNM
AIZ 4 0.00190 2.83× 50.0% 13.6% SWX, MDLZ, COR, UNM, MNST
BXSL 5 0.00185 2.76× 65.2% 14.4% AIZ, SNA, UNM, PBA, ADC
AFL 6 0.00185 2.76× 52.8% 10.8% SR, YUMC, RLI, BAC, ITGR
ABBV 7 0.00184 2.74× 57.7% 22.2% ATO, NI, FFIN, WAB, BATRA
DOV 8 0.00183 2.73× 64.4% 17.4% SWX, PBA, MS, NTRS, AFL
EMA 9 0.00182 2.72× 50.8% 6.0% WMB, RACE, PRK, FHN, HASI
MKL 10 0.00181 2.70× 62.2% 12.3% HON, TTEK, ONB, LIN, STE

Volatility watch

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

SymbolScore Recent volatility
ACM 0.8654 2.49%
WMT 0.8504 4.75%
FCFS 0.8326 4.99%
BGC 0.8028 4.23%
CBRE 0.7800 2.73%
MOG.A 0.7739 3.78%
UGI 0.7683 4.26%
TRMB 0.7681 1.39%
BMI 0.7616 3.01%
AVT 0.7615 3.12%

Rising influence vs 2026-08-21

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
MAT 0.001610.00010 +0.00151
ZBH 0.001590.00010 +0.00149
MDGL 0.001500.00010 +0.00140
AXP 0.001500.00010 +0.00140
EQH 0.001490.00010 +0.00139

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AM 0.000100.00181 -0.00171
MTDR 0.000100.00181 -0.00171
UI 0.000100.00175 -0.00165
NPO 0.000100.00160 -0.00150
HST 0.000100.00156 -0.00146

Cryptocurrency

XAUTUSD was the most central name, carrying 7.99× the influence of an average node across 353 assets.

assets
353
Density
0.140
Clustering
0.379
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 0.02265 7.99× 80.1% 15.1% SAGAUSD, RLCUSD, BONKUSD, LSKUSD, RAREUSD
PAXGUSD 2 0.01878 6.63× 73.6% 17.9% BONKUSD, RLCUSD, ZRXUSD, SAGAUSD, LSKUSD
AERGOUSD 3 0.01402 4.95× 61.6% 11.6% XAUTUSD, RSRUSD, PAXGUSD, DENTUSD, GSTUSD
SBRUSD 4 0.00960 3.39× 48.9% 25.3% ALCXUSD, BCHEUR, TRXUSD, BCHNUSD, DOGEUSD
BLZUSD 5 0.00910 3.21× 48.6% 36.9% FISUSD, SPAUSD, APTUSD, WEUR, ALEOUSD
FISUSD 6 0.00889 3.14× 46.0% 10.8% XAUTUSD, LTCBTC, DRVUSD, PAXGUSD, SWELLUSD
SUKUUSD 7 0.00881 3.11× 48.0% 14.2% EWTUSD, APEUSD, OXTUSD, IDEXUSD, BCHEUR
NCTUSD 8 0.00868 3.07× 52.8% 16.5% VARAUSD, CPOOLUSD, BLZUSD, CQTUSD, VANRYUSD
LTCBTC 9 0.00851 3.00× 48.9% 6.8% ELAUSD, PRIMEUSD, LCXUSD, UNFIUSD, CPOOLUSD
CQTUSD 10 0.00849 3.00× 44.0% 30.1% GUSD, SAFEUSD, TRACUSD, C98USD, IDEXUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-08-23

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AERGOUSD 0.014020.00502 +0.00900
CQTUSD 0.008490.00240 +0.00609
SBRUSD 0.009600.00387 +0.00573
AMPUSD 0.007670.00194 +0.00573
BLZUSD 0.009100.00339 +0.00571

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
REQUSD 0.002030.01078 -0.00874
AURORAUSD 0.003780.01168 -0.00789
GOMININGUSD 0.002520.00905 -0.00653
UNFIUSD 0.007310.01246 -0.00515
WELLUSD 0.001400.00571 -0.00431

Foreign exchange

ZMWZAR was the most central name, carrying 6.57× the influence of an average node across 552 pairs.

pairs
552
Density
0.041
Clustering
0.419
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 0.01190 6.57× 14.7% 9.8% XAUBRL, USDEGP, DOPGBP, XAUZAR, JPYRUB
ZARNGN 2 0.00745 4.11× 9.4% 7.1% SGDZAR, USDRUB, NOKRUB, MXNZAR, LKRZAR
EGPZAR 3 0.00745 4.11× 10.5% 8.7% SGDZAR, MXNZAR, ZARSGD, ARSHKD, LKRZAR
XAUAUD 4 0.00708 3.91× 16.2% 6.7% AUDIDR, PLNNOK, RUBJPY, CZKNOK, BRLARS
USDMUR 5 0.00694 3.83× 3.8% 2.9% COPMXN, CADZAR, JPYRSD, KWDEUR, USDHUF
ARSAUD 6 0.00678 3.74× 12.9% 8.5% XAGMXN, XAGINR, XAGSAR, XAGBRL, XAGUSD
UYUEUR 7 0.00588 3.25× 3.8% 1.3% EURMUR, GBPBTN, GBPNPR, MXNCLP, USDQAR
EURZMW 8 0.00587 3.24× 1.1% 0.4% EURGHS, GHSEUR
BWPUSD 9 0.00539 2.98× 3.6% 3.8% BWPGBP, GBPBWP, USDZMW, ZMWUSD, CDFGBP
RUBCAD 10 0.00526 2.91× 8.0% 5.3% USDBHD, ZAREGP, XAGAUD, ILSZAR, XAGCNY

Rising influence vs 2026-08-21

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZMWZAR 0.011900.00407 +0.00783
ARSAUD 0.006780.00154 +0.00524
EGPZAR 0.007450.00222 +0.00523
USDMUR 0.006940.00198 +0.00496
XAUAUD 0.007080.00221 +0.00487

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDEGP 0.003640.01981 -0.01618
NADUSD 0.000280.00740 -0.00712
KRWTHB 0.002570.00891 -0.00634
XAGARS 0.002730.00896 -0.00623
ARSCOP 0.002850.00844 -0.00559

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.