Major Asian markets erased previous loss and trading marginally higher on Thursday. Yesterday, U.S. released ADP job data with positive numbers at 179K m/m vs 176K (revised up from 172K) m/m.
Gold and silver are trading lower on the back of stronger dollar. Gold was trading around $1,351 and silver was trading $20.20 marks.
Japan’s Nikkei 225 was trading 0.28 percent higher at 16,129 points.
South Korea’s Kospi was trading 0.17 percent higher at 1,998.01 points.
Shanghai composite index to open down 0.1 pct at 2,976.41 points and China's CSI300 index to open down 0.1 pct at 3,190.55 points.
Hong Kong’s Hang seng was trading 0.45 percent higher at 21,830.15 points.
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was trading 0.35 percent higher at 5,484 points.
In addition, India’s BSE Sensex was trading 0.15 percent higher at 27,738.18 and NSE Nifty down by 0.04 percent at 8,541.70 points.
