LINDA WERTHEIMER, host: NPR's business news starts with commodities taking a tumble.</s>LINDA WERTHEIMER, host: Commodity prices are plunging and that includes a big drop in the price of oil this week. Crude oil is now trading at about $96 a barrel, down from well over $110 in recent weeks. Some investors are seeing signs of an economic slowdown in the U.S. and in other parts of the world - and believe that will cut the demand for oil.
Crude oil is now trading at about $96 a barrel, down from well over $110 in recent weeks. Some investors are seeing signs of an economic slowdown in the U.S. and in other parts of the world — and believe that will cut demand for oil.