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Daily network digest

Thursday, August 27, 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

NTRS was the most central name, carrying 3.17× the influence of an average node across 1493 stocks.

stocks
1493
Density
0.250
Clustering
0.539
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
NTRS 1 0.00212 3.17× 50.5% 11.8% AEG, SUI, HON, AGNC, CPT
EXC 2 0.00198 2.96× 55.2% 11.8% GWW, IEX, DCI, UNM, CRBG
AIZ 3 0.00195 2.91× 49.9% 14.1% SWX, MDLZ, FIBK, UNM, GHC
NFG 4 0.00191 2.85× 55.4% 13.9% WBD, AME, TJX, MRP, LIN
CSQ 5 0.00188 2.81× 46.6% 4.4% JNJ, OHI, SSB, MTCH, VNT
APLE 6 0.00182 2.72× 53.6% 13.7% MRP, RJF, PEG, ITGR, GFL
PB 7 0.00180 2.69× 54.5% 14.9% WTM, WRB, FE, CHD, NFG
AFL 8 0.00180 2.68× 50.6% 11.1% SR, YUMC, ACGL, RLI, AEP
EMA 9 0.00177 2.64× 45.6% 6.6% WMB, RACE, PRK, THG, HASI
AEP 10 0.00177 2.64× 57.2% 13.5% PBA, EGP, MDLZ, IRT, FWONA

Volatility watch

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

SymbolScore Recent volatility
HRL 0.9199 4.73%
DKS 0.9192 17.19%
FCFS 0.9177 5.50%
WMT 0.8747 1.70%
HQY 0.8735 5.06%
BGC 0.8734 3.75%
CPRT 0.8720 1.09%
PTC 0.8648 2.50%
FTNT 0.8514 3.87%
MOG.A 0.8422 1.88%

Rising influence vs 2026-08-26

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AUB 0.001580.00010 +0.00147
WSM 0.001500.00010 +0.00139
EXE 0.001480.00010 +0.00138
IVZ 0.001480.00010 +0.00137
VST 0.001440.00010 +0.00134

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
MTDR 0.000100.00164 -0.00154
LSTR 0.000100.00159 -0.00149
UI 0.000100.00151 -0.00141
EQT 0.000100.00151 -0.00141
AMTM 0.000100.00150 -0.00140

Cryptocurrency

XAUTUSD was the most central name, carrying 8.00× the influence of an average node across 353 assets.

assets
353
Density
0.145
Clustering
0.380
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 0.02266 8.00× 81.8% 17.9% LSKUSD, BONKEUR, SAGAUSD, MLNUSD, RLCUSD
PAXGUSD 2 0.01655 5.84× 71.6% 15.6% BONKEUR, ZRXUSD, SAGAUSD, LSKUSD, BONKUSD
AERGOUSD 3 0.01379 4.87× 64.8% 11.1% XAUTUSD, RSRUSD, DENTUSD, PAXGUSD, PONDUSD
SUKUUSD 4 0.00934 3.30× 48.9% 13.9% EWTUSD, APEUSD, GALAUSD, OXTUSD, RAREUSD
CQTUSD 5 0.00927 3.27× 46.9% 27.0% GUSD, IDEXUSD, SAFEUSD, TRACUSD, C98USD
SBRUSD 6 0.00918 3.24× 47.2% 27.3% ALCXUSD, UNFIUSD, DOGEUSD, BCHNUSD, TRXUSD
FISUSD 7 0.00892 3.15× 47.4% 13.9% XAUTUSD, LTCBTC, DRVUSD, BICOUSD, PAXGUSD
UNFIUSD 8 0.00839 2.96× 41.5% 29.3% GALAUSD, INDEXUSD, PEPEUSD, SUSHIUSD, JASMYUSD
LTCBTC 9 0.00831 2.93× 47.7% 6.5% ELAUSD, PRIMEUSD, CPOOLUSD, UNFIUSD, XAUTUSD
BLZUSD 10 0.00809 2.86× 46.6% 35.8% ALEOUSD, FISUSD, WEUR, STGUSD, APTUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-08-26

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AERGOUSD 0.013790.00483 +0.00896
CQTUSD 0.009270.00286 +0.00641
SBRUSD 0.009180.00382 +0.00535
AMPUSD 0.006930.00184 +0.00509
LTCBTC 0.008310.00359 +0.00472

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GOMININGUSD 0.002850.01002 -0.00717
REQUSD 0.002880.00986 -0.00698
AURORAUSD 0.003980.01072 -0.00674
JUNOUSD 0.003660.00910 -0.00545
ELAUSD 0.005260.01066 -0.00540

Foreign exchange

ZMWZAR was the most central name, carrying 6.82× the influence of an average node across 552 pairs.

pairs
552
Density
0.041
Clustering
0.418
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 0.01236 6.82× 14.9% 10.5% DOPGBP, XAUZAR, XAUBRL, USDEGP, JPYRUB
USDMUR 2 0.00767 4.24× 3.8% 2.9% COPMXN, CADZAR, KWDEUR, JPYRSD, USDHUF
ZARNGN 3 0.00758 4.18× 9.6% 7.6% SGDZAR, USDRUB, NOKRUB, XAUBRL, RUBCHF
EGPZAR 4 0.00748 4.13× 10.2% 8.5% SGDZAR, ZARSGD, MXNZAR, ARSUSD, ARSHKD
UYUEUR 5 0.00662 3.66× 3.8% 1.3% GBPBTN, EURMUR, GBPNPR, MXNCLP, USDQAR
ARSAUD 6 0.00656 3.62× 14.2% 8.7% XAGMXN, XAGCAD, XAGJPY, XAGGBP, XAGSAR
XAUAUD 7 0.00640 3.53× 16.7% 7.6% AUDIDR, CZKNOK, PLNNOK, BRLARS, RUBJPY
BWPUSD 8 0.00551 3.04× 4.0% 3.8% BWPGBP, GBPBWP, USDZMW, CDFGBP, ZMWUSD
RUBCHF 9 0.00531 2.93× 24.7% 9.4% XAUAUD, OMRZAR, AEDZAR, ZMWZAR, EGPZAR
XAUMXN 10 0.00529 2.92× 12.2% 5.1% ARSCHF, CHFRUB, RUBCAD, BRLPEN, HKDARS

Rising influence vs 2026-08-26

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZARJPY 0.005080.00111 +0.00397
EURZMW 0.005000.00114 +0.00385
EGPZAR 0.007480.00390 +0.00358
USDUYU 0.004560.00105 +0.00352
CHFRUB 0.005220.00175 +0.00347

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZARINR 0.002050.00868 -0.00663
KRWRUB 0.002940.00918 -0.00623
PENCOP 0.000280.00538 -0.00511
ZARUSD 0.001360.00559 -0.00424
USDEGP 0.003780.00788 -0.00410

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.