FAQ

Fonlis follows the world's live stories, explains each one in plain language, then looks at the markets most exposed to it and describes what those prices seem to be pricing in.

From public feeds of established newsrooms across politics, economics, technology, geopolitics, energy, science, sport, music, entertainment, gaming and more. When ten outlets cover one event, Fonlis keeps one story with ten sources.

No. Fonlis separates the facts, the market reading and the uncertainty. A market reading describes what prices seem to imply today. It can be wrong and it changes as new information arrives.

No. Fonlis is an information service. Nothing on the site is a recommendation to buy or sell anything.

The facts and Why it matters use permitted reporting about that specific event, its actors and consequences. They go directly to the facts and analysis, with source references. Markets need an explicit exposure link; scenarios and uncertainty must remain event-specific rather than generic.

No. One sufficiently informative permitted article or publisher-feed summary can support written The facts and Why it matters. Evidence quality matters more than outlet count. New stories wait if either section cannot be grounded; one short headline is not enough.

Fonlis respects access restrictions, AI opt-outs and paywalls. It can look for permitted same-event coverage, official sources or authorised publisher-feed summaries. A supported provisional analysis may be refined later. Without sufficient permitted evidence, the new story stays unpublished.

No. Reader pages use saved analysis and existing data; opening or revisiting them does not launch paid inference. Editorial generation and checks happen separately during automatic collection, subject to evidence and operating limits.

Fonlis favours meaningful consequences within each domain, not popularity alone. Important elections, disasters, business decisions and major sporting or sports-business developments can qualify worldwide. Routine and anecdotal updates are filtered out; a market signal is not required for editorial importance.

An automated cycle runs about every 15 minutes to collect reporting, refresh prices and signals, and archive finished stories. Written analysis is reviewed separately when usable evidence changes and operating limits allow. Open pages generally refresh about every 45 seconds and read saved analysis; refreshing a page does not guarantee a newly written explanation.

Because no market is clearly exposed to it. Fonlis will not invent a signal that does not exist.

They leave the active feed and stay available in the archive: on the News page, open Filters and tick Show archive.

Yes. Search for it first, and if Fonlis has not detected it, suggest it. The platform verifies the sources and runs it through the exact same analysis as every other story.

The blue chart with a number is the market reaction strength, from 0 to 100: how strongly the linked markets have actually moved since publication. The amber flame is the story's intensity: its freshness, coverage and speed. Both come from real measurements only.

Four plain-language levels describe what markets seem to be pricing in: Clear favourite, Slight edge, Too close to call, and Markets say no. A verdict is always a reading of today's prices, never a promise about tomorrow.

On any story with a signal, members can create an alert with a direction (rise, fall or both) and a threshold. When a linked market crosses it, you are notified by email and, if you enabled them in My space, by push notification on your devices.

Signal alerts watch a market move. Topic alerts watch for stories: in My space, under Alerts, choose a country, a domain or a keyword in the headline and a minimum number of sources. Matching stories are reported in your bell, not by email. You can pause or delete a topic alert.

Matches are checked during the automatic update cycle. They cover new live stories from the last six hours that meet your source threshold. Topic notifications are limited to eight per 24 hours, and a story already notified to you is not repeated, even if it matches several alerts.

A rule that combines several conditions: domain, country, headline words, source certainty and a minimum move on a linked market. A story must meet all of them. You choose the bell, push or email, instant or a daily digest, and optional quiet hours. Each story reaches you once per rule, never again on repricing. Up to 10 rules per member; Test this rule shows past matches from the last 7 days.

They are checked during the automatic update, about every 15 minutes. Instant rules are sent at that point (or after your quiet hours); digest rules are grouped into one message per day.

Yes. Use the bin on a notification or Clear all in the bell. Deleted notifications remain visible in the Activity tab of My space, marked Deleted, alongside your recent sign-ins.

Story timeline records updates to a single story, including new source articles and recorded summary changes. The story so far links separate stories covering a developing subject, so you can explore its earlier coverage. Neither is a forecast.

It checks for the same domain, compatible countries, a publication gap of no more than 21 days and at least two independent distinctive clues in the headlines. Shared routine wording, such as an earnings-report template, does not establish a link. Fonlis favours missing a possible connection over including an unrelated story. These automatic checks reduce mistakes, but do not guarantee perfect matches or prove that one event caused another.

Yes. On Search, combine filters for domain, country, period, minimum source count, minimum signal strength and live or archived stories. Filters work without a keyword too. Sort by best match, most recent, most sources or strongest signal, and use Reset to clear the filters.

From official institutions, including central banks, statistics offices, election authorities and summit organisers. Dates are collected daily and link to their official source. Last-good snapshots and confirmed fallback dates keep entries available when a source cannot be refreshed; unknown dates and times are never guessed.

A public page published every Monday that sums up the previous week: main themes, biggest market reactions, signals confirmed or reversed, most followed stories and most active countries. The current week is shown live until it ends.

Every active story placed on its countries, with their market signals. Open it from the strip under the news ticker, then select a country to see its stories and open its dedicated page from the panel. It updates on its own about every minute.

Yes. New official dates are collected once a day, the weekly recap is saved automatically each Monday, and the map follows new stories as they arrive. No action is needed.

A free newsletter that gathers the day's most important stories and their signals. Subscribe from My space or the banner at the bottom of the page; the banner disappears once you are subscribed.

Yes. In My space, choose your favourite domains and countries: when you are signed in, matching stories appear first, with the world essentials always on top.

Five tools gathered on the Research tools page, reachable from the menu: Price + news (a market's price with the news that appeared along the way), Companies & institutions (stories that clearly name an organisation), Event radar (official dates matched to chosen markets), My dossiers (stories, links and notes kept together) and Search & export (download a search's sources as a spreadsheet).

No. Markers show when linked stories appeared. They help you look, but they do not prove that a story moved the price.

Only for My dossiers and the radar based on your followed markets. A dossier stays private unless you share it, and you can stop sharing at any time.

Under Deeper analysis, each linked market shows a direct link (the story names it), a sector link (its sector or economy) or a background link (broad connection only), with a strength bar. Strength reflects how explicit the link is, not how much the price will move.

The facts describes what happened. Why it matters explains potential consequences. Market analysis discusses what observed prices may imply, while uncertainty names unresolved event-specific questions. Interpretations remain distinguishable from established facts.

On a story, open Check the references to see cited passages from The facts, Why it matters and uncertainty beside their saved source links. References show the grounding of the written passage, not a guarantee that every claim is independently verified.

No. It places denial headlines alongside other reporting so you can inspect the wording. Headlines may refer to different assertions; the panel does not establish that the same fact is contradicted or decide which source is correct.

Because the event comes first. The facts gives a source-grounded account of what is happening; Why it matters then explains what the development could change. This order keeps reported facts separate from interpretation.

On country and domain pages, Fonlis compares new stories over the last 7 or 30 days with the period just before. Rising means at least 3 stories and 50% more; cooling means a third fewer. When there is not enough history, Fonlis says the trend is not readable yet rather than guessing.

Yes. In the Overview tab, tap Customize to enter edit mode: move each block up or down, hide or show it with the eye icon, then tap Done. The layout is saved to your account and follows you on every device, and Reset restores the default order. Every action shows a confirmation box.

Yes. On each story, tap the pin next to any source article. Your pins gather in My space, under Pinned articles, where you can filter them by newspaper, domain or country, search a title and sort by pin date or publication date. Pins are private.

Returning to a story can show changes to its written analysis, source wording or coverage. For you in My Space separates new matching stories from additional reporting since your previous visit. These visit markers stay in this browser, with personal recap markers scoped to your account; they do not synchronise across devices. You can also mark cards as read.

They show added and removed sentences compared with the analysis saved during your previous visit in this browser. Changes are grouped by The facts, Why it matters and uncertainty. Citation renumbering alone does not count as a change. An editorial revision does not independently confirm that a new event occurred.

Sign in, then use Save on a blog article. It appears in Saved articles in My Space, separate from Saved stories and pinned publisher articles. Your blog bookmarks follow your account; saving requires an account, while social and email sharing remain public.

Open Blog to browse illustrated themes covering energy, finance, trade, resources and technology. Select a theme to see its articles. The blog strip rotates all articles from newest to oldest with their own photos and links; New marks the latest article.

On Sources, it counts public stories by country and domain over the last seven days. It describes what Fonlis has covered, not everything that happened worldwide. A country with no listed stories may be a gap in coverage, not a country with no important events.

On Sources, it highlights selected monitored countries with zero or one public major story first added in the last seven days. It is not a complete list of countries and is hidden when the coverage results are sampled. Sparse coverage calls for a collection check, not a conclusion that no important events occurred.

No. Recent country coverage only breaks ties between candidates in the same importance tier. The importance threshold stays unchanged and collection uses authorised sources; routine events do not qualify just because their country is under-covered.

It reads each asset’s first and latest observations alongside historical slices around fixed reaction periods. Captures that conflict for the same asset and timestamp are excluded before returns, activity and daily aggregates are computed. Missing prices stay missing, and price movements alone do not prove a cause.

It appears only when linked assets have valid observations over compatible completed periods. Missing or conflicting measurements are excluded rather than filled in. When available, it compares rising, falling and flat directions; moving together does not prove the story caused those moves.

Fonlis is available in English. French, Spanish and German are unavailable. Publisher article titles keep their original language.

Yes. On any public profile, tap Follow. You then find their public notes in the Members feed of My space, and the people you follow under Following. Only the follower count is public, never the list of your followers.

Your alerts, plus member notifications: when someone follows you or likes one of your notes (their @ is shown only if their profile is public), when a major story covered by at least 4 outlets matches your domains and countries (3 per day at most, never twice the same), and when the market reaction of a story you follow is confirmed or reversed. None of these are sent by email.

A significant edit to already verified public facts can notify followers if the story’s title is unchanged. These notices are deduplicated by content and capped at three per member per day. Adding sources, renumbering citations or changing market prices alone does not trigger them. They flag a saved editorial change, not independent verification, and do not repeat smart-alert deliveries.

For each similar past story, Fonlis shows how its linked markets actually moved 24 hours after it, for example Brent +2.3%. Markets of the current story come first, and a star marks an unusual move. These are observed figures, not forecasts.

Yes. Tap a flag or a domain label on any story to open its page: live stories, the markets most exposed and the related domains or countries.

Yes. Use the link at the bottom of any country page, or on the Map select a country and tap Compare … with another country. You see both countries side by side: stories updated in the last 24 hours and over 7 days, strong signals (70/100 or more), whether coverage is accelerating or slowing, how many outlets cover each story on average, how many linked markets are up or down today, the domain split, the markets both countries move and the stories involving both. A short summary states the main differences in plain words.

Every market you follow gets a single card: the latest price, the daily move, the change over the last five sessions, the strongest signal among the stories you follow and up to three related stories. Clearly broken prices are hidden rather than displayed.

Fonlis reads the wording of each source headline. Rumours and unnamed sources make a story Unconfirmed, a denial facing other reports makes it Disputed, an official announcement makes it Confirmed. Identical copies of one article count once.

A personal summary built from your follows and interests: updates on stories you follow, new stories in your domains and countries, and market reactions confirmed or reversed.

Each action, such as copying your profile link or saving your interests, shows a confirmation box at the top of the screen: green when it succeeded, red with the reason when it failed.

Yes. Every story page has direct share buttons next to Share. A shared link opens with the story's real title and summary, so readers see the news before they click, and shared links are marked so Fonlis can tell which network brings visitors.

The story page tells you. When you come back to a story you already opened, a note shows how many new sources appeared since then, and a See them link takes you straight to them.

A public card showing how the reviewed signals behaved over the last 30 days: how many held after 5 days, and how many were confirmed, reversed, inconclusive or still under review. Fonlis shows its misses as well as its hits. This is not investment advice.

Cards stay neutral, with a faint sea-green wash for rises or soft orange for falls. A bottom line reflects the daily move, reaching full length at ±2%; moves under 0.1% remain neutral. The printed percentage is the exact reading. Colour alone does not explain why an asset moved.

A public ranking of the outlets Fonlis covers, over the last 30 days: how many stories each published, how often it was first to report and how often its headline wording confirmed the event. Open it from the Sources section of any story.

It is now part of News. Old Explore links open News with the same country or domain filter. News offers three views: Feed (with linked stories), Timeline (stories day by day) and Compare (two countries or domains side by side). Active filters apply to both sides of Compare.

Yes, with an account. On News, set your words and filters, then choose Save this search. You can keep up to 8, each showing how many stories are new since you last opened it. There are no email notifications for saved searches yet.

A tool below the quotes on Markets. Open it to search assets, filter by type, sort by move, check how widely a direction is shared and compare selected markets. Signed-in readers also see the markets they follow and their price alerts.

The biggest valid daily moves among assets tied to live stories, with related coverage to explore. Broken quotes are filtered out. Related news provides context, not proof that the story caused the move.

The full public record behind the track-record card: every reviewed signal of the last 90 days, marked Confirmed or Reversed, with the story and the markets involved. Fonlis shows its misses as well as its hits. It opens with the hit rate, the confirmed, reversed and inconclusive counts, an eight-week chart and a record by domain, and you can filter by outcome, period, domain or keyword. You reach it from the Track record link in the main menu, the button under the track-record card on Markets, the footer, the Weekly recap and the home page. On a story page, the link under the signal opens it already filtered on that story's domain, next to a line showing how that domain's signals held up, for example Signals in Entertainment held 51% of the time over 49 reviews in 90 days.

Open any market page while signed in, choose Rises above or Falls below and enter a price. Fonlis checks it with every market update and sends a single notification to the bell when the price crosses your level, then the alert stops. Broken quotes cannot trigger it. You can keep up to 20 active price alerts, listed in the Alerts tab of My space.

On each market page, the real price change in the 24 hours after each story directly or sector-linked to that asset, measured from the first price recorded after the story. Leisure stories, context-only links and implausible moves are excluded. It shows the past, not a forecast.

A list in My space of live stories from the last 48 hours ranked by your interests: followed markets first, then your domains, then your countries. It shows the Top pick, new stories of the last six hours and strong signals separately, lets you filter by markets, domains or countries, and explains on each card why the story was chosen.

The words and countries whose coverage is accelerating: at least three new stories in the last 24 hours and at least twice as many as the day before. It opens from the News page.

Upcoming official events that match your interests: your favourite countries, your favourite domains and the markets you follow. Every entry keeps a direct link to its official source.

Following a story keeps it close: it appears in Your last 24 hours in My space. The bell can report confirmed or reversed market reactions and qualifying significant changes to its verified facts, with separate deduplication and delivery limits.

Yes. Public RSS feeds are available, globally and per domain, so your reader picks up new stories automatically.

Yes, from the browser's install prompt or Share menu on mobile. It opens full screen, straight to the live news, with no store and no heavy download. The banner at the bottom of the site shows the steps per device.

An email address and a hashed password, plus what you choose to create: follows, likes, notes, contributions and sign-in timestamps. Nothing else is asked.