Asian markets in red ahead of NFP job data, gold slightly up $1,232

Most Asian indices were trading on a lower note on the last trading day of the week. The main event for the day is NFP job data. Gold was trading around $1,232 mark whilve silver was trading around $16.32 mark.

Hong Kong’s Hang seng was trading 1.15 percent lower at 24,400 points.

Australia’s S&P ASX200 was trading 0.80 percent lower at 5,830 points.

Shanghai composite index to open down 0.4 pct at 3,114.77 points and China's CSI300 index to open down 0.3 pct at 3,393.48 points.

Taiwan’s market was trading 0.54 percent lower at 9,913.23 points.

India’s NSE Nifty was trading around 0.40 percent lower at 9,322.90 points and BSE Sensex was trading at 0.47 percent lower at 29,985.01 points.