Asian markets marginally higher, gold stabilizes below $1,200 mark

All the major Asian indices were trading on a higher note on Wednesday. Gold and silver were marginally lower in early hours of Asia. Gold was trading around $1,188 mark and silver was trading around $16.60 marks.

South Korea’s Kospi was trading 0.05 percent higher at 1,979.36 points.

Tokyo's Nikkei was trading 0.16 percent lower at 18,336.58 points.

Shanghai composite index to open down 0.3 pct at 3,272.14 points and China's CSI300 index to open down 0.2 pct at 3,557.64 points.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng was trading 0.17 percent higher at 22,775.00 points.

Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was trading 0.37 percent lower at 5,437.60 points.

India’s NSE Nifty was trading around 0.31 percent higher at 8,167.90 points and BSE Sensex was trading at 0.27 percent higher at 26,465.12 points.