If a company's bonds bear an interest rate of 8%,the tax rate is 30%,and the company's assets are generating an after-tax return of 7%,then the leverage would be:
A) positive.
B) negative.
C) neither positive nor negative.
D) impossible to determine without knowing the return on common shareholders' equity.
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