FxWirePro: Most Asian markets in red, gold hovers around $1,280 mark

All the major Asian indices were trading on a lower note on Friday. Gold was trading around $1,279 mark while silver was trading around $14.96 mark.

Tokyo's Nikkei was trading 0.74 pct lower at 22,143.85 points.

Australia’s S&P/ASX200 was trading 0.11 pct lower at 6,375.55 points.

Shanghai composite index to open down 0.5 pct at 3,108.16 points and China's CSI300 index to open down 0.5 pct at 3,921.89 points.

Hong Kong's hang seng index was trading 0.07 percent higher at 29,576.22 points.

South Korea’s Kospi was trading 0.57 percent lower at 2,178.58 points.

Taiwan stock was trading 1.07 percent lower at 10,922.61 points.

India’s NSE Nifty was trading around 0.22 percent higher at 11,668.28 points while BSE Sensex was trading 0.13 points higher at 38,776.87 points.