Asian markets in red, gold jumps above $1,260 mark

All the major Asian indices were trading on a lower note on Thursday. Gold was trading around $1,258 mark while silver jumps above $17.00 mark.  

Japan’s Nikkei was trading 1.40 pct lower at 19,537.50 points.

Hong Kong’s Hang seng was trading 0.27 percent lower at 25,225.00 points.

Australia’s S&P ASX200 was trading 1.10 percent lower at 5,722 points.

Shanghai composite index to open down 0.7 pct at 3,082.33 points and China's CSI300 index to open down 0.7 pct at 3,387.67 points.

Taiwan’s market was trading 0.48 percent lower at 9,965.31 points.

India’s NSE Nifty was trading around 0.54 percent lower at 9,474.55 points and BSE Sensex was trading at 0.34 percent lower at 30,553.03 points.