Asian markets in red, gold stabilizes above $1,250 mark

All the major Asian indices start a new week with a negative note on Monday. On the other side, gold and silver were marginally higher in early hours of Asia. Gold was trading around $1,256 mark while silver was trading around $18.36 marks.

Japan’s Nikkei was trading around 0.75 percent lower at 19,136 points.

Hong Kong’s Hang seng was trading 0.10 percent higher at 23,984 points.

Australia’s S&P ASX200 was trading around 0.22 percent lower at 5,728 marks.

South Korea’s Kospi was trading 0.25 percent lower at 2,089 points.

Shanghai composite index to open down 0.1 pct at 3,249.19 points and China's CSI300 index to open down 0.1 pct at 3,471.13 points.