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COMMERCE Although during the past fortnight gold has not oscillated so much as before, the movement in imported articles has not increased to any appreciable extent. Impor not lowered their prices in proportion to the fall in gold as they do not wish to operate until a continued steadiness in the gold quotations enables them to calculate prices afresh. While the heavy decrease in the gold premium represents a considerable gain to those who have to make remittances abroad, the importers, on the other hand, are afraid of making losses, should they not be able to sell to the retail dealers at the high prices at which they had bought. The public at the present moment refuses to pay prices calculated on a gold premium 70 or 80 points higher than present quetations and limits its purchases to what is absolutely necessary, so that seldom have so many com in the past few weeks.