The Nasdaq Stock Market’s board, as expected,...

The Nasdaq Stock Market’s board, as expected, proposed that its stock prices be displayed in minimum increments of one-sixteenth of a dollar, up from one-eighth. Its parent, the National Assn. of Securities Dealers, will consider the recommendation April 10. . . . America Online said it will start a Japanese version of its online service next month with Mitsui & Co. and Nihon Keizai Shimbun. Dulles, Va.-based AOL said the service will be published in Japanese. . . . Eddie Bauer of Redmond, Wash., Esprit de Corp. of San Francisco and New York’s Phillips-Van Heusen were added to the Labor Department’s “Trendsetter List,” a directory of garment industry companies fighting sweatshops. . . . Merrill Lynch & Co. agreed to pay Chilean state copper giant Codelco $25 million to settle a dispute resulting from a copper futures trading scandal that shook world metals markets in 1994. . . . Rochester, N.Y., photo giant Eastman Kodak Co. signed a multimillion-dollar agreement with Atlanta-based Turner Broadcasting Sales Inc. to tout its digital-imaging products at the Atlanta Braves’ new baseball park.