Bond

Carvana Co. ’s bonds are touching all-time lows, spotlighting investors’ concerns about the used-car seller’s long-term trajectory as it burns cash and faces rising borrowing costs. Carvana’s long-term bonds have declined to distressed levels, with some now trading as low as 33 cents on the dollar on Wednesday, a sign that investors don’t believe they will be paid back in full. The yield on their 10.25% notes was over 30% as of Tuesday, according to MarketAxess , a sign that Carvana would struggle to…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDave Bautista said Daniel Craig was happier on the set of Knives Out than he was on the set of James Bond.Bautista worked with Craig on 2015’s Spectre and will be collaborating with him again on Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.“He was really put through it on Bond,” Bautista told Entertainment Weekly on Wednesday (9 November). “You could feel that he was under a lot of…

A favorite pastime of a certain subset of cinephiles is to theorize, speculate, and even wager on who will become the next James Bond. Seriously, it’s right there in the sports books next to the horse races and the billion-to-one bet that the Sacramento Kings will ever make the playoffs again. But what is it, precisely, that has so many of us so invested? If the oo7 movies themselves tend to be more or less the same, employing action/spy genre tropes with the formal discipline of a sonnet, why does it really matter…

Yassir, an African super app platform that offers on-demand services such as ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery, and payments, has raised $150 million in Series B funding, five times what it raised in its previous priced round last November.  The investment was led by BOND, the growth-stage firm that Mary Meeker spun out of Kleiner Perkins in 2018. Other investors in the growth round include DN Capital, Dorsal Capital, Quiet Capital, Stanford Alumni Ventures, and Y Combinator via its Continuity Fund, among other…

Henry Cavill Addresses If He Wants To Play James Bond(Photo Credit –Instagram) Henry Cavill speaks on whether he would want to be the next James Bond as talks about it increase. After 2021’s No Time to Die was released, it marked an end to Daniel Craig’s 007. The actor started playing the character from 2006’s Casino Royale. After many years and a few films, he finally bid adieu. Now, the producers are on a hunt for Craig’s replacement, and a few names have been in the running. This includes the Superman actor, Idris…

There were certainly tears to be shed at the end of No Time To Die, as Daniel Craig’s 007 sacrificed himself for the greater good. Making for a landmark event in the history of James Bond movies, it’s a result that’s still talked about a little over a year after it finally landed in theaters. Such a somber, heartbreaking moment doesn’t make for easily light conversation... unless you’re someone like composer Hans Zimmer, who gleefully reflected on how he, musically, killed Commander Bond.In a recent Instagram video, the…

Sadie Sink recently revealed that her bond with Millie Bobby Brown is beyond the Stranger Things set. Sink revealed she, Brown and their Stranger Things costars are very close friends in real life so much so that they’ve played critical roles in helping each other navigate growing up in the spotlight. In the latest interview, the Stranger Things actress shared, “Having each and every kid on the show, I think we’d be so lost without each other. We really depend on each other when things get absolutely nuts, or when you…

The Federal Reserve’s signals of more interest-rate increases ahead rattled financial markets anew Thursday, sending stocks lower and driving bond yields back near multiyear highs.The declines extended losses that began after Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s Wednesday-afternoon warning that high inflation means it is still too soon to think about any pause in the central bank’s inflation-fighting campaign. His comments dashed Wall Street’s hopes for some relief after officials lifted the target…

As the years wear on and the new entries stack up, fans continue to partake in the regular ranking of the 007 oeuvre, taking sides in the forever argument of which is the best James Bond movie of all time. Some enthusiasts would never hear of anything other than a title featuring the the OG Bond, Sean Connery, while others cite the more sophisticated modern installments led by Daniel Craig, who just recently retired from the role in last year’s excellent No Time to Die. Digital Trends celebrates the 60th anniversary…

An astounding but little-known fact about Julia Roberts has resurfaced after her recent 55th birthday prompted a consultant to call attention to a link between the actor’s birth and revered civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.Roberts, whose birthday was 28 October, first shared the story about the day she was born with journalist Gayle King this September in Washington DC during a HISTORYTalks live event for the History Channel. That day, she said during the talk, the activist known to many simply as MLK – as well…