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Daily network digest

Wednesday, September 2, 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

CRUS was the most central name, carrying 4.20× the influence of an average node across 1492 stocks.

stocks
1492
Density
0.234
Clustering
0.520
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
CRUS 1 0.00281 4.20× 67.3% 18.2% EVRG, TOWN, SSB, FHN, OHI
UDR 2 0.00209 3.11× 55.3% 12.9% TRP, ATO, RGA, CNP, PEP
MPLX 3 0.00201 2.99× 49.9% 10.5% CTVA, NDSN, TFC, SYY, MTG
CNO 4 0.00191 2.85× 46.9% 9.7% TROW, SLAB, L, IDA, CQP
COST 5 0.00190 2.83× 46.5% 12.8% EMA, WBD, PG, NI, LNT
EMA 6 0.00188 2.80× 49.5% 6.6% NDAQ, STT, KMB, PSA, ABNB
EG 7 0.00185 2.76× 50.1% 16.0% APG, CLH, SCI, EPD, FTV
UTHR 8 0.00182 2.72× 60.4% 17.6% PEG, PSA, GGG, ENB, CR
CDP 9 0.00180 2.69× 53.7% 14.5% OHI, AME, PPL, UDR, VOYA
PEG 10 0.00180 2.68× 43.5% 10.8% MNST, NSC, USB, MPLX, WM

Volatility watch

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

SymbolScore Recent volatility
EIX 0.9833 12.71%
PCG 0.9826 10.38%
PYPL 0.9139 6.64%
CNH 0.9090 4.03%
TDS 0.8979 2.88%
AON 0.8842 4.99%
ALNY 0.8799 3.60%
WMT 0.8732 1.26%
DE 0.8678 2.34%
NVDA 0.8599 4.93%

Rising influence vs 2026-09-01

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
CRUS 0.002810.00010 +0.00271
FSK 0.001670.00010 +0.00157
NXPI 0.001600.00010 +0.00150
CSW 0.001590.00010 +0.00149
BF.A 0.001580.00010 +0.00148

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TECH 0.000100.00166 -0.00156
OMC 0.000100.00157 -0.00147
IVZ 0.000100.00153 -0.00143
ADPT 0.000100.00153 -0.00143
LLYVA 0.000100.00152 -0.00142

Cryptocurrency

XAUTUSD was the most central name, carrying 8.16× the influence of an average node across 352 assets.

assets
352
Density
0.137
Clustering
0.372
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 0.02318 8.16× 78.9% 20.8% RAREUSD, RLCUSD, MLNUSD, SAGAUSD, CRVUSD
PAXGUSD 2 0.01760 6.20× 70.7% 20.2% BONKEUR, SAGAUSD, ZRXUSD, LSKUSD, RAREUSD
AERGOUSD 3 0.01450 5.10× 62.7% 10.5% XAUTUSD, RSRUSD, PAXGUSD, DENTUSD, GSTUSD
FISUSD 4 0.00922 3.24× 46.4% 12.5% DRVUSD, PAXGUSD, LTCBTC, XAUTUSD, NOSUSD
BLZUSD 5 0.00902 3.18× 45.6% 35.0% ALEOUSD, WEUR, FISUSD, SPAUSD, XMRUSD
LTCBTC 6 0.00894 3.15× 46.7% 6.8% ELAUSD, PRIMEUSD, UNFIUSD, AVTUSD, OCEANUSD
SUKUUSD 7 0.00868 3.06× 45.6% 17.4% XMRUSD, EWTUSD, GALAUSD, CELRUSD, ELAUSD
CQTUSD 8 0.00864 3.04× 41.6% 21.7% SAFEUSD, TRACUSD, GUSD, VELOUSD, IDEXUSD
UNFIUSD 9 0.00860 3.03× 41.6% 25.9% PEPEUSD, GALAUSD, SUSHIUSD, INDEXUSD, OGNUSD
STGUSD 10 0.00768 2.70× 42.2% 21.1% CGLDUSD, PROUSD, BNTUSD, SKYUSD, TRACUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-08-31

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUTUSD 0.023180.00594 +0.01724
AERGOUSD 0.014500.00283 +0.01167
PAXGUSD 0.017600.00818 +0.00942
XRPBTC 0.006380.00145 +0.00493
UNFIUSD 0.008600.00371 +0.00489

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
OCEANUSD 0.003150.01238 -0.00923
TRACUSD 0.003550.01209 -0.00854
ACAUSD 0.006250.01227 -0.00601
HOPRUSD 0.007640.01336 -0.00572
OXTUSD 0.002020.00694 -0.00492

Foreign exchange

USDEGP was the most central name, carrying 5.77× the influence of an average node across 524 pairs.

pairs
524
Density
0.035
Clustering
0.374
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 0.01102 5.77× 14.5% 9.6% GBPHUF, HUFEUR, SEKINR, HUFCHF, CHFHUF
XAUGBP 2 0.01045 5.48× 7.5% 11.3% XAURUB, AUDIDR, XAUBRL, KRWRUB, XAUAUD
KRWRUB 3 0.00994 5.21× 19.7% 9.4% XAUAUD, RUBGBP, RUBJPY, RUBKRW, XAUUSD
ZARINR 4 0.00963 5.05× 3.3% 0.2% XAUGBP
USDMUR 5 0.00644 3.37× 8.4% 1.7% MUREUR, AUDFJD, AEDSEK, ARSJPY, ARSCHF
GHSEUR 6 0.00631 3.31× 0.8% 0.2% EURGHS
XAUARS 7 0.00625 3.28× 12.4% 9.9% JPYSEK, SEKJPY, ZMWZAR, JPYNZD, JPYCHF
EURGHS 8 0.00620 3.25× 0.6% 0.6% GHSEUR, EURZMW, BWPCHF
XAUJPY 9 0.00607 3.18× 10.3% 3.8% GBPNGN, USDMUR, ILSZAR, GBPSCR, HKDJPY
ZARUSD 10 0.00599 3.14× 6.9% 5.0% USDMUR, GBPTHB, ILSZAR, HKDARS, DKKHUF

Rising influence vs 2026-09-01

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUGBP 0.010450.00228 +0.00818
KRWRUB 0.009940.00216 +0.00777
ZARINR 0.009630.00367 +0.00596
XAUARS 0.006250.00068 +0.00558
EURGHS 0.006200.00092 +0.00528

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDEGP 0.011020.01864 -0.00762
XAGARS 0.000570.00783 -0.00726
ARSCOP 0.001230.00846 -0.00723
RUBUSD 0.001090.00808 -0.00699
COPCAD 0.002250.00886 -0.00661

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.