Asian markets marginally higher, gold and silver up

Asian indices were trading marginally higher on Tuesday. On the other side, gold and silver were slightly up in early hours of Asia. Gold was trading around $1,327 and silver was trading around $19.51 marks. The main event for the day is RBA cash rate decision.

Japan’s Nikkei 225 was trading 0.24 percent lower at 17,078.42 points.

South Korea’s Kospi was trading around 0.12 percent higher at 2,062.11 points.

Shanghai composite index to open flat at 3,071.06 points and China's CSI300 index to open up 0.1 pct at 3,322.02 points.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng was trading 0.20 percent higher at 23,698.24 points.

Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was trading 0.20 percent lower at 5,418.10 points.