Before the foundation of the United States, the Kingdom of Britain owned the 13 colonies on the East shore of North America. Those colonies were separated into 3 regions: the New England, the Middle Colonies, the Southern Colonies. Economic activities and trade was dependent of the environment in each of those regions. Economy in the New England : ship building industry, fishing, trade. Economy in the Middle Colonies: farming, lot of jobs for skilled workers. Also merchants invested money in colonies. In the Southern Colonies: cotton and tobacco-industry. The economy impact the livelihood of the original 13 colonies by giving jobs and money to the colonists.
Answer: I) provides extra protection to bondholders as both an early warning system and perhaps some collateral cash
II) ) provides an option to the firm to buy bonds at the lower of market or face value.
Explanation:
A sinking fund is typically an amount of money that is being set aside by a company in order to either pay a bind or pay off a particular debt that the company has incurred.
The effect of the sinking bond on bondholders is that it provides extra protection to bondholders as both an early warning system and perhaps some collateral cash and tabt is also provides an option to the firm to buy bonds at the lower of market or face value.
Therefore, option I and II are correct.
