Asian markets in green, Nikkei up above 2 pct, gold down by 1 pct

All the major Asian indices were trading on a higher note on the Friday. Gold rejects key resistance at $1,244 and currently trading around $1,224 marks. On the other side, silver was trading around $17.55 marks.

Japan’s Nikkei was trading around 2.53 percent higher at 19,353 points.

Hong Kong’s Hang seng was trading 0.56 percent higher at 23,657 points.

India’s NSE Nifty was trading around 0.18 percent higher at 8,794.70 points and BSE Sensex was trading at 0.15 percent higher at 28,372 points.

Australia’s S&P ASX200 was trading around 0.97 percent higher at 5,719 marks.

South Korea’s Kospi was trading 0.49 percent higher at 2,075 points.

Shanghai composite index to open flat at 3,183.01 points and China's CSI300 index to open up 0.1 pct at 3,398.32 points.