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Daily network digest

Wednesday, August 26, 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 3.17× the influence of an average node across 1493 stocks.

stocks
1493
Density
0.242
Clustering
0.530
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 0.00212 3.17× 45.1% 14.6% BATRA, EMA, GBTG, BOKF, BPOP
MFC 2 0.00196 2.92× 55.9% 8.8% ED, DPZ, PGR, NJR, MSFT
LAMR 3 0.00189 2.81× 51.7% 11.2% ENB, AMP, HD, GATX, PGR
ALL 4 0.00185 2.76× 52.9% 16.9% STWD, CMS, PLD, EXC, CUBE
COST 5 0.00184 2.75× 44.1% 13.7% SPG, AEP, PFE, CURB, WTS
CB 6 0.00181 2.71× 51.4% 10.2% INVH, MMM, D, LAMR, AIT
PH 7 0.00179 2.67× 60.1% 12.0% PBA, AB, MMM, BYD, FIBK
ATO 8 0.00179 2.67× 44.8% 7.7% HD, T, LXP, PG, UBSI
STN 9 0.00178 2.66× 56.6% 12.1% VZ, FIBK, HD, T, OTTR
NWE 10 0.00178 2.66× 49.3% 10.3% MFC, ZWS, TDG, PCG, SLGN

Volatility watch

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

SymbolScore Recent volatility
FCFS 0.9187 5.86%
DY 0.8396 4.88%
DKS 0.8201 16.65%
BGC 0.8004 3.80%
TDS 0.7850 2.06%
SRE 0.7718 3.11%
MRK 0.7716 2.76%
HWM 0.7681 2.33%
MOG.A 0.7603 3.88%
RS 0.7573 2.86%

Rising influence vs 2026-08-25

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
CWEN 0.001670.00010 +0.00157
MTDR 0.001640.00010 +0.00154
ALLY 0.001600.00010 +0.00149
HRL 0.001590.00010 +0.00149
LSTR 0.001590.00010 +0.00148

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
SITE 0.000100.00161 -0.00151
CSW 0.000100.00158 -0.00148
EXEL 0.000100.00157 -0.00147
AUB 0.000100.00153 -0.00143
INCY 0.000100.00153 -0.00143

Cryptocurrency

XAUTUSD was the most central name, carrying 6.67× the influence of an average node across 353 assets.

assets
353
Density
0.139
Clustering
0.375
Diameter
3

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 0.01890 6.67× 77.0% 21.9% HIGHUSD, BADGERUSD, JASMYUSD, RARIEUR, JUPUSD
PAXGUSD 2 0.01765 6.23× 75.9% 20.5% ACAUSD, BADGERUSD, JUPUSD, DOTUSD, RARIEUR
UNFIUSD 3 0.01185 4.18× 54.8% 31.3% STRKUSD, CROUSD, VANRYUSD, ARBUSD, CELRUSD
FISUSD 4 0.01174 4.14× 55.4% 11.4% C98USD, BADGERUSD, PENDLEUSD, ALPHAUSD, HIGHUSD
SUKUUSD 5 0.01112 3.93× 54.5% 20.7% LRCUSD, NANOUSD, CHRUSD, SBRUSD, ZENUSD
AURORAUSD 6 0.01072 3.79× 42.3% 11.6% BATUSD, SHPINGUSD, UNFIUSD, ATOMUSD, SEIEUR
ELAUSD 7 0.01066 3.76× 52.3% 29.0% CGLDUSD, 1INCHUSD, FILUSD, DYDXEUR, HFTUSD
GOMININGUSD 8 0.01002 3.54× 46.9% 20.5% GALAUSD, JUNOUSD, SPAUSD, GOATUSD, ATOMUSD
REQUSD 9 0.00986 3.48× 47.7% 19.3% UNFIUSD, GMTUSD, ALPHAUSD, ZEUSUSD, MOGUSD
JUNOUSD 10 0.00910 3.21× 44.9% 29.5% ALTUSD, BANDUSD, NEONUSD, AURORAUSD, ROSEUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-08-25

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUTUSD 0.018900.00582 +0.01308
PAXGUSD 0.017650.00747 +0.01018
UNFIUSD 0.011850.00380 +0.00805
JUNOUSD 0.009100.00132 +0.00778
AURORAUSD 0.010720.00366 +0.00706

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TRACUSD 0.001870.01145 -0.00958
OCEANUSD 0.002150.01086 -0.00871
ACAUSD 0.006320.01198 -0.00566
HOPRUSD 0.004740.01038 -0.00564
AUDIOUSD 0.003190.00789 -0.00470

Foreign exchange

ZMWZAR was the most central name, carrying 5.35× the influence of an average node across 522 pairs.

pairs
522
Density
0.036
Clustering
0.393
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 0.01024 5.35× 13.1% 8.4% ZARTRY, ZARNGN, MYRNZD, XAUUSD, XAUCNY
KRWRUB 2 0.00918 4.79× 18.6% 10.7% RUBGBP, RUBJPY, RUBKRW, ARSAUD, ARSCAD
ZARINR 3 0.00868 4.53× 2.3% 0.4% ZMWZAR, XAUGBP
USDEGP 4 0.00788 4.11× 15.0% 9.8% HUFEUR, SEKINR, CHFHUF, HUFCHF, GBPHUF
CLPBRL 5 0.00721 3.76× 6.0% 3.3% COPDKK, CLPPEN, PENCLP, DOPUSD, GBPLKR
XAUJPY 6 0.00662 3.45× 11.5% 5.4% GBPNGN, ILSZAR, USDMUR, GBPSCR, USDSCR
USDMUR 7 0.00643 3.35× 8.4% 1.7% MUREUR, AEDSEK, ARSCHF, ARSJPY, AUDFJD
XAUBRL 8 0.00604 3.15× 14.2% 10.4% ZMWZAR, KRWRUB, ZARBWP, RUBKRW, XAUCNY
GBPUYU 9 0.00584 3.05× 5.4% 1.7% UYUGBP, DOPUSD, COPDKK, CLPCOP, COPZAR
XAUGBP 10 0.00578 3.02× 6.5% 12.1% XAURUB, AUDIDR, XAUBRL, ZARNOK, RUBKRW

Rising influence vs 2026-08-25

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
KRWRUB 0.009180.00238 +0.00679
ZMWZAR 0.010240.00401 +0.00623
CLPBRL 0.007210.00149 +0.00572
ZARINR 0.008680.00357 +0.00511
XAUARS 0.005560.00061 +0.00494

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDEGP 0.007880.01959 -0.01171
ARSCOP 0.001010.00957 -0.00856
COPCAD 0.002750.00881 -0.00606
XAGARS 0.002700.00856 -0.00586
KRWTHB 0.002170.00764 -0.00547

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.