Asian markets in red, gold hovers around $1,255 mark

All the major Asian indices were trading on a lower note on Thursday. On the other side, gold and silver were marginally lower in early hours of Asia. Gold was trading around $1,253 mark while silver was trading around $18.21 marks.

Japan’s Nikkei was trading around 1.60 percent lower at 18,561 points.  

Hong Kong’s Hang seng was trading 0.65 percent lower at 24,242 points.

Australia’s S&P ASX200 was trading around 0.60 percent lower at 5,840 marks.

South Korea’s Kospi was trading 0.63 percent lower at 2,147.10 points.

Shanghai composite index to open up 0.1 pct at 3,272.19 points and China's CSI300 index to open up 0.1 pct at 3,507.99 points.

Taiwan’s market was trading 0.62 percent lower at 9,889.43 points.

India’s NSE Nifty was trading around 0.32 percent lower at 9,235.22 points and BSE Sensex was trading at 0.25 percent lower at 29,899.71 points.