Asian markets mixed, gold stable around $1,225

All the major Asian indices were trading on a mixed note on Thursday. In early hours of Asia, Australia released job data with negative numbers. Gold and silver were trading marginally higher. Gold was trading around $1,226 marks and silver were trading around $16.95 marks.

South Korea’s Kospi was trading 0.12 percent lower at 1,977.36 points.

Tokyo's Nikkei was trading 0.17 percent lower at 17,832.50 points.

Shanghai composite index to open down 0.2 pct at 3,198.50 points and China's CSI300 index to open down 0.2 pct at 3,423.47 points.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng was trading 0.28 percent lower at 22,221.26 points.

Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was trading 0.04 percent lower at 5,325.40 points.

India’s NSE Nifty was trading around 0.42 percent higher at 8,145.10 points and BSE Sensex was trading at 0.03 percent higher at 26,306.56 points.