Asian markets mixed, gold back above $1,280 mark

All the major Asian indices were trading on a mixed not on Tuesday. Gold was trading around $1,284 mark while silver was trading around $17.57 mark.

Japan’s Nikkei was trading 0.60 pct lower at 20,050.50 points.

Hong Kong’s Hang seng was trading 0.33 percent higher at 25,949.20 points.

Australia’s S&P ASX200 was trading 1.14 percent lower at 5,689 points.

India’s NSE Nifty was trading around 0.16 percent lower at 9,660.55 points and BSE Sensex was trading at 0.10 percent lower at 31,276.63 points.

Shanghai composite index to open down 0.2 pct at 3,084.54 points and China's CSI300 index to open down 0.1 pct at 3,464.38 points.

Taiwan stock was trading around 0.25 pct lower at 10,200.93 points.