$3.$ Corporate finance, capital markets, and investments

Finance professionals make decisions that fall into three distinctive areas: corporate finance, capital markets, and investments. Below is a set of decisions made by finance professionals. Categorize the decisions according to the area of finance to which they belong.

Decision

Corporate Finance

Capital Markets

Investments

Radford is a small company that manufactures automobile bearings. Managers at the company must make decisions on the kind and the cost of equipment to buy.

Managers at a bank need to decide on the interest rate that they must charge for the loans that they make to their prime customers.

James, an analyst who tracks the utilities sector, must make decisions on giving a $$buy$,$ sell, or hold$$ status on stocks that he tracks.