Oil traders - heads up for the API data due at the bottom of the hour

US oil inventory data from the American Petroleum Institute is due at 4.30pm ET (2030GMT) ... and publicly available at 4.35pm (2035GMT)

Its normally out on a Tuesday afternoon in the US but this week its been delayed as there was a holiday on Monday.

The API data is closely watched as a guide to the official EIA inventory data due tomorrow morning (US time).

The 'expected' for the data from EIA tomorrow (Wednesday 10 September 2015 at 1430GMT) is +872.73Kbbls (i.e. an inventory build) for US Crude Oil Inventories.