MicroStrategy (MSTR.O) up 2.9 per cent

U.S. stocks opened with the Dow up 0.61 per cent, the S&P 500 up 0.58 per cent and the Nasdaq up 0.75 per cent. MicroStrategy (MSTR.O) rose 2.9 per cent after news it bought more than 50,000 bitcoins for $5.4 billion last week; the rest of the cryptocurrency concepts were broadly higher, with Coinbase (COIN.O) up 1.5 per cent.