Most Asian markets in red, gold stabilizes above $1,220 mark

All the major Asian indices were trading on a lower note on Thursday. Gold was trading around $1,226 mark while silver was trading around $16.04 mark. The main event for the day is US ADP job data and ISM non manufacturing PMI.

Japan’s Nikkei was trading 0.61 pct lower at 19,958.55 points.

Hong Kong’s Hang seng was trading 0.32 percent lower at 25,441.59 points.

South Korea’s Kospi was trading 0.15 pct lower at 2,384.11 points.

Shanghai composite index to open down 0.1 pct at 3,203.86 points and China's CSI300 index to open down 0.1 pct at 3,654.56 points.

Taiwan stock was trading 0.53 pct lower at 10,349.15 points.

Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was trading 0.07 pct lower at 5,759.50 points.

India’s NSE Nifty was trading around 0.20 percent higher at 9,657.50 points and BSE Sensex was trading at 0.13 percent higher at 31,285.01 points.