DEBORAH AMOS, host: NPR's business news starts with oil prices still falling.</s>DEBORAH AMOS, host: Oil is now trading below $125 a barrel. The recent raise to higher and higher prices is now in reverse, as investors see more signs of falling demand, not just in the U.S. but in another big energy consuming nation - Japan. Today, Japanese officials reported their first decline in oil imports in nine months.</s>DEBORAH AMOS, host: Yesterday, the U.S. Energy Department reported that daily demand for fuel in the U.S. was at its lowest level since January 2007.
Deborah Amos has this morning's business news.