The two major income-earning assets of commercial banks are:. a. checkable deposits and bank reserves.
b. loans and securities.
c. checkable deposits and securities.
d. reserves and loans

b. loans and securities.

Explanation:

Remember, a bank is also a corporate business, and so are interested in earning income (profits). When banks give out loans (borrow money) to clients they collect interests on those loans, and remember a loan can be considered an asset because the recipients sign a contract to repay the funds they received. Thus it makes up one of the major income-earning assets of commercial banks.

Securities on the other hand are stocks, bonds, mutual funds investments that a bank could own, and then sell at a profit.

trade embargo

Explanation:

In trade and international politics, an embargo is the prohibition of trading and negotiating with a particular country.

It is usually declared by one group of nations against another, in order to isolate it and place its government in a difficult internal situation, since the effects of the embargo often cause its economy to suffer.

The embargo is normally used as a political punishment for certain prior policies with which it is not agreed, although its economic nature often leaves enough space to doubt the true interests that benefit from the measure. Historically, an embargo is a war certificate. The typical reaction to the submission to an embargo is the development of autarchy.