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TheStreet / Yahoo Finance

U.S. business/markets news, mainstream and mostly non-ideological (investor-oriented, market-optimist)

Owned byTheStreet is owned by The Arena Group (formerly theMaven), which bought it in 2019 for $16.5 million and also publishes Sports Illustrated and Parade. Yahoo Finance is part of Yahoo, which is about 90% owned by the private equity firm Apollo Global Management. Verizon holds the other roughly 10%.
FundingMostly advertising, plus affiliate and sponsored content. TheStreet also sells premium subscriptions and investing products. Yahoo Finance earns advertising revenue and sells Yahoo Finance Plus subscriptions. It also licenses and syndicates content from news wires and outside publishers, and that content includes TheStreet articles. Both are backed by private-equity or investor-financed parents rather than by a single wealthy owner or a state.
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

TheStreet was founded in 1996 by Jim Cramer and Martin Peretz as TheStreet.com, an early subscription finance site, and went public in 1999. It was later run as a listed company and sold off units such as RateWatch (to S&P Global in 2018) and The Deal/BoardEx (2019). In 2019 theMaven, a platform company that later renamed itself The Arena Group, bought TheStreet for $16.5 million in cash, financed by B. Riley debt. Cramer left TheStreet after the sale, though he is still known for CNBC's Mad Money, and the brand shifted toward high-volume web content and investing products. Arena has faced financial strain and management turnover, and its Sports Illustrated unit drew criticism in 2023 over AI-generated content; this shaped scrutiny of its other brands, though TheStreet's output remains mainly stock and market commentary. Yahoo Finance began in 1997 as part of Yahoo, passed to Verizon (via AOL/Yahoo), and was bought by Apollo in 2021 as part of the roughly $5 billion Verizon Media deal. It combines original reporting and video with syndicated wire and partner content, and it relies on stock quotes and tools for much of its large audience. Reports in 2026 said Apollo was weighing an IPO or sale of Yahoo and had refinanced acquisition debt. Both outlets are generally market-friendly and consumer-investor focused, with stock-pick and headline-driven pieces that can emphasize price moves over deeper policy analysis.

Sources

  1. TheStreet - Wikipedia
  2. Press Release issued by Maven on August 8, 2019 (SEC)
  3. Jim Cramer's TheStreet Sold to TheMaven in $16.5 Million Cash Deal
  4. Apollo completes its $5B acquisition of Verizon Media, now known as Yahoo
  5. Is Yahoo Ready For Another IPO? (MediaPost, Feb 2026)
  6. Yahoo Refinances Apollo Acquisition Debt With $1.6 Billion Loan, Bond Sale (Bloomberg)
  7. Who owns Yahoo? Ownership structure explained (2026)

Profile compiled 2026-10-08; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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