Asian markets slightly up, gold hovers around $1,290 mark

All the major Asian indices were trading on a higher note on Thursday. Gold was trading around $1,288 mark while silver was trading around $17.12 mark.

Japan’s Nikkei was trading 0.07 pct lower at 19,714.25 points.

Hong Kong’s Hang seng was trading 0.09 percent lower at 27,392.29 points.

Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was trading 0.04 pct lower at 5,783.50 points.

Shanghai composite index to open up 0.2 pct at 3,253.85 points and China's CSI300 index to open up 0.2 pct at 3,707.07 points.

Taiwan stock was trading around 0.70 pct higher at 10,361.56 points.

India’s NSE Nifty was trading around 0.30 percent higher at 9,926.15 points and BSE Sensex was trading at 0.31 percent higher at 31,882.25 points.

South Korea’s kospi was trading 0.51 percent higher at 2,361 points.