9. Interest rates and decisions Which of the following best explains why a firm that needs to borrow money would borrow st iong-term rates when shart-tarms-rates afe lower than long-terin rates? A firm wili only borrow at short-term rotes when the yield curve is downward-slaping. The firms intefest payments will be the same whether it uses short-term or long-term financing, so it is essentioliy inditferent to which type of hinancing it uses The use of short-term financing over lang-term financing for a long-term project wal increase the ritk of the firm. Credit ratings affect the yieids on bonds Based on the scenario deseribed in the foliowing table, determine whether, yleids wili inerease or decrease and whether it will be more expensuve or less expensive, as compored to other players in the market, for a company to borrow monay from the bond morket