Asian markets in green ahead of NFP job data, gold hovers around $1,260 mark

All the major Asian indices were trading on a higher note on the last trading day of the week. The main event for the day is NFP job results. Yesterday U.S. released ADP job data with positive numbers at 253K m/m vs 174K m/m. Gold was trading around $1,262 mark while silver was trading around $17.17 mark.

Japan’s Nikkei was trading 1.80 pct higher at 20,217.50 points.

Hong Kong’s Hang seng was trading 0.36 percent higher at 25,896.20 points.

Australia’s S&P ASX200 was trading 0.84 percent higher at 5,786 points.

South Korea’s Kospi was trading 0.95 pct higher at 2,366.55 points.

India’s NSE Nifty was trading around 0.30 percent lower at 9,644.55 points and BSE Sensex was trading at 0.32 percent higher at 31,232.63 points.

Shanghai composite index to open down 0.3 pct at 3,094.23 points and China's CSI300 index to open down 0.2 pct at 3,491.59 points.

Taiwan stocks open up 0.3 pct at 10,117.76 points.