Asian markets mixed ahead of NFP job data, gold hovers around $1,180 mark

All the major Asian indices were trading on a mixed note on the last working day of the week. The main event for the day is U.S. NFP job data. Yesterday U.S. released ADP job data with negative numbers at 153 K m/m vs 215 K previous release.

Gold was trading around $1,178 mark while silver was trading around $16.56 marks.

Tokyo's Nikkei was trading 0.62 percent lower at 19,400 points. 

Hong Kong’s Hang seng was trading 0.38 percent higher at 22,542 points.

Shanghai composite index to open down 0.1 pct at 3,163.78 points and China's CSI300 index to open flat at 3,366.85 points.

Taiwan stocks open up 0.1 pct at 9,371.41 points.

South Korea’s Kospi was trading 0.33 percen lower at 2,048 points.

India’s NSE Nifty was trading around 0.36 percent higher at 8,303.70 points and BSE Sensex was trading at 0.25 percent higher at 26,946 points.

Australia’s S&P ASX200 was trading 0.02 percent lower at 5,752.10 points.