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Daily network digest

Tuesday, August 25, 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

COST was the most central name, carrying 3.15× the influence of an average node across 1493 stocks.

stocks
1493
Density
0.230
Clustering
0.522
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
COST 1 0.00211 3.15× 50.8% 12.5% PG, EMA, INVH, WBD, PECO
PAA 2 0.00205 3.06× 60.0% 16.5% FFIN, HOMB, AWR, BNS, SPG
UDR 3 0.00204 3.04× 56.8% 12.8% RGA, ATO, PEP, TRP, CNP
TXNM 4 0.00203 3.04× 47.2% 0.0%
CNO 5 0.00201 3.00× 58.9% 9.5% L, TROW, CZR, AME, FER
LECO 6 0.00199 2.97× 65.3% 14.1% BATRK, APG, CNO, HEI.A, CTVA
CDP 7 0.00198 2.96× 60.1% 13.9% OHI, UDR, JPM, PPL, HASI
AEP 8 0.00197 2.94× 42.5% 11.8% WCN, TRNO, SKT, CZR, CDP
PNW 9 0.00189 2.82× 47.4% 8.8% SCHW, TU, EG, AIZ, NWSA
ATO 10 0.00186 2.78× 51.9% 7.8% PNC, GL, FITB, NEE, NYT

Volatility watch

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

SymbolScore Recent volatility
DKS 0.8802 15.97%
WMT 0.8338 4.61%
ACM 0.8239 3.14%
BGC 0.7804 4.29%
RBA 0.7622 1.96%
FCFS 0.7545 5.25%
CNH 0.7178 4.29%
MRK 0.7158 5.57%
EIX 0.7153 2.82%
KDP 0.7153 1.59%

Rising influence vs 2026-08-24

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
CON 0.001600.00010 +0.00150
CSW 0.001580.00010 +0.00148
EXEL 0.001570.00010 +0.00147
WMS 0.001540.00010 +0.00144
RL 0.001530.00010 +0.00143

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BNT 0.000100.00166 -0.00156
OMC 0.000100.00155 -0.00145
EQH 0.000100.00149 -0.00139
BKNG 0.000100.00149 -0.00139
PHM 0.000100.00148 -0.00138

Cryptocurrency

SUKUUSD was the most central name, carrying 4.75× the influence of an average node across 353 assets.

assets
353
Density
0.148
Clustering
0.381
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
SUKUUSD 1 0.01345 4.75× 59.7% 17.9% CPOOLUSD, PYRUSD, YFIUSD, BCHUSD, SCUSD
ACAUSD 2 0.01198 4.23× 58.2% 21.6% CHZUSD, ENJUSD, DRVUSD, GHSTUSD, RARIEUR
TRACUSD 3 0.01145 4.04× 54.3% 33.5% FLRUSD, GFIUSD, XDCUSD, ROSEUSD, SPELLUSD
FISUSD 4 0.01103 3.89× 55.7% 20.2% BTCEUR, BTCUSD, SWFTCUSD, WUSD, ETCUSD
OCEANUSD 5 0.01086 3.83× 55.4% 32.4% DENTUSD, AMPUSD, SPAUSD, ETCUSD, FORTHUSD
HOPRUSD 6 0.01038 3.67× 49.4% 29.3% GFIUSD, NCTUSD, XRPUSD, FLOKIUSD, SNXUSD
SWFTCUSD 7 0.00818 2.89× 45.7% 9.9% ZETAUSD, ZETACHAINUSD, CTXUSD, NYMUSD, ALEOUSD
SHPINGUSD 8 0.00793 2.80× 39.5% 13.9% FLOKIUSD, XMRUSD, LINKUSD, SYNUSD, AVAXUSD
AUDIOUSD 9 0.00789 2.79× 40.6% 7.1% OCEANUSD, OXTUSD, TRACUSD, FISUSD, ALEOUSD
OXTUSD 10 0.00770 2.72× 33.0% 29.0% HOPRUSD, AXSUSD, GFIUSD, RAYUSD, AEVOUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-08-24

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TRACUSD 0.011450.00374 +0.00771
OCEANUSD 0.010860.00327 +0.00758
AUDIOUSD 0.007890.00214 +0.00575
ACAUSD 0.011980.00623 +0.00575
OXTUSD 0.007700.00298 +0.00472

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUTUSD 0.005820.02265 -0.01683
PAXGUSD 0.007470.01878 -0.01131
AERGOUSD 0.002790.01402 -0.01123
NCTUSD 0.003320.00868 -0.00537
INDEXUSD 0.002190.00722 -0.00503

Foreign exchange

USDEGP was the most central name, carrying 10.79× the influence of an average node across 551 pairs.

pairs
551
Density
0.035
Clustering
0.395
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
USDEGP 1 0.01959 10.79× 9.6% 1.8% SEKINR, NOKINR, ZARTRY, ZARINR, INRSEK
ARSCOP 2 0.00957 5.27× 5.3% 2.7% LRDGBP, ARSPEN, CDFUSD, BWPGBP, CDFGBP
COPCAD 3 0.00881 4.85× 6.4% 4.4% USDUGX, PENCLP, CLPCNY, USDUYU, SZLUSD
XAGARS 4 0.00856 4.72× 12.2% 6.0% LKRZAR, AEDZAR, OMRZAR, EGPZAR, TZSZAR
KRWTHB 5 0.00764 4.21× 5.1% 1.5% THBINR, XAUEUR, JPYINR, XAUJPY, XAUINR
TZSZAR 6 0.00711 3.92× 11.6% 11.6% ZARAED, LKRZAR, KRWINR, ZARTRY, ZARSGD
LKRZAR 7 0.00700 3.86× 16.4% 9.3% ZARAED, ZARTRY, ZARNGN, XAUBRL, KRWINR
XAUJPY 8 0.00675 3.72× 8.0% 8.2% MXNBRL, BRLCAD, KRWTHB, THBINR, AEDJPY
RUBCAD 9 0.00670 3.69× 11.5% 5.1% XAUJPY, ARSEUR, GBPPEN, PENGBP, PENCAD
CHFRUB 10 0.00663 3.65× 10.7% 4.0% XAUJPY, PENGBP, GBPPEN, XAGRUB, XAUINR

Rising influence vs 2026-08-24

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDEGP 0.019590.00364 +0.01595
ARSCOP 0.009570.00285 +0.00671
COPCAD 0.008810.00280 +0.00601
XAGARS 0.008560.00273 +0.00583
KRWTHB 0.007640.00257 +0.00507

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZMWZAR 0.004010.01190 -0.00789
EGPZAR 0.002030.00745 -0.00542
ARSAUD 0.001830.00678 -0.00495
USDMUR 0.002010.00694 -0.00493
XAUAUD 0.002160.00708 -0.00492

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.