FOREX-Dollar droops before key data, bitcoin soars above $57,000

Leading cryptocurrency bitcoin soared to a more than two-year high above $57,000, helped by enterprise software firm MicroStrategy Inc’s announcement that it had bought about 3,000 more of the tokens. The U.S. dollar index, which measures the currency against a basket of peers including the yen, euro and sterling, traded flat at 103.77 in Asian time, following a 0.17% slide on Monday.