Asian markets in Green, gold drops about 1 pct to $1287 mark

All the major Asian indices were trading on a positive note on start of the new week. On the other side gold and silver were trading lower in early hours of Asia. Gold was trading around $1,291 and silver was trading around $18.18 marks.

South Korea’s Kospi was trading 0.65 percent higher at 1,995.36 points.

Tokyo's Nikkei was trading 1.57 percent higher at 17,164.50 points.

Shanghai composite index to open flat at 3,124.89 points and China's CSI300 index to open flat at 3,353.44 points.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng was trading 0.54 percent higher at 22,765.26 points.

Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was trading 1.33 percent higher at 5,249.40 points.