Asian markets marginally higher, gold stabilizes above $1,200 mark

All the major Asian indices were trading higher on the start of a new week. On the other side, gold and silver were also up side in early hours of Asia. Gold was trading around $1,210 mark and silver were trading around $16.62 marks.

South Korea’s Kospi was trading 0.09 percent lower at 1,972.36 points.

Tokyo's Nikkei was trading 0.67 percent higher at 18,087.58 points.

Shanghai composite index to open down 0.1 pct at 3,188.50 points and China's CSI300 index to open down 0.1 pct at 3,412.65 points.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng was trading 0.12 percent higher at 22,371.26 points.

Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was trading 0.07 percent higher at 5,363.60 points.

India’s NSE Nifty was trading around 0.27 percent lower at 8,052.90 points and BSE Sensex was trading at 0.01 percent lower at 26,146.56 points.