3. Corporate finance, capital markets, and investments Finance professionals make decisions that fall into three distinctive areas corporate finance, capital markets, and investments. Belo decisions made by finance professionals. Categorize the decisions according to the area of finance to which they belong. Corporate Corporate Finance Capital Markets Decision 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. Adam, a trader at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), executes the decisions made by investors and takes action based on requests by different buyers and sellers in the market. Sabastian, an analyst who tracks the utilities sector, must make decisions on giving a "buy, sell, or hold" status on stocks that he tracks