Asian markets in red ahead of NFP job data, gold hovers around $1,300 mark

All the major Asian indices were trading on a lower note ahead of the NFP job data. U.S. release ADP job data with negative numbers at 147K m/m vs 202K m/m previous release. Gold and silver were trading lower in early hours of Asia. Gold was trading around $1,299 mark and silver was trading around $18.22 mark.

South Korea’s Kospi was trading 0.15 percent lower at 1,981.36 points.

Tokyo's Nikkei was trading 1.57 percent lower at 16,866.50 points.

Shanghai composite index to open down 0.1 pct at 3,126.35 points and China's CSI300 index to open down 0.1 pct at 3,362.21 points.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng was trading 0.01 percent lower at 22,685.26 points.

Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was trading 0.81 percent lower at 5,183.10 points.