Asian markets rally after robust NFP job data, gold higher at $1,230 mark

All the major Asian indices were trading on a higher note on Monday. U.S. posted strong NFP job data on last Friday. U.S. released NFP job data with positive numbers at 211K vs 79K previous release. Gold was trading around $1,230 mark while silver was trading around $16.40 mark.

Japan’s Nikkei was trading 2.34 pct higher at 19,904.50 points.

Hong Kong’s Hang seng was trading 0.43 percent higher at 24,581 points.

Australia’s S&P ASX200 was trading 0.53 percent higher at 5,867 points.

Shanghai composite index to open down 0.4 pct at 3,090.07 points and China's CSI300 index to open down 0.4 pct at 3,369.11 points.

Taiwan’s market was trading 0.10 percent higher at 9,905.93 points.

India’s NSE Nifty was trading around 0.47 percent higher at 9,330.90 points and BSE Sensex was trading at 0.31 percent higher at 29,950.18 points.