Sup of product of sets

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Let $A$ and $B$ be two sets from $\mathbb{R}$

How to prove that

$$\sup(AB)=\max\{\sup(A)\sup(B),\sup(A)\inf(B), \sup(B)\inf(A),\inf(A)\inf(B)\} $$

where $AB=\{a\cdot b, a\in A, b\in B\}$ Edit1:

I prove this by distinguishing 4 cases A positive or negative or B positive or negative

But what about if $A=[-1,4]$ and $ B= [-3,6]$ how to do ?