Brent jumped more than 4 percent on Tuesday while U.S. crude settled up more than 2 percent, after a late burst of buying driven in part by expectations that record U.S. crude inventories would not swell by as much as they have in recent weeks. Crude supply outages in Canada, Nigeria and elsewhere boosted prices. Brent’s gain was its biggest one-day percentage move in a month. The American Petroleum Institute (API) was due to report preliminary stockpiles data at 4:30 p.m. (2130 GMT) ahead of official numbers from the U.S. government on Wednesday. Analysts polled by Reuters expect a 714,000-barrel stockpile build last week to record highs above 543 million. That would be one of the smallest builds in weeks. As recently as mid-April, U.S. crude inventories rose more than 6 million barrels in a week. “The talk is that API will show […]