Asian markets open higher; gold hits fresh 8-day low at $1,327

Major Asian indices are trading on a positive on the 3rd consecutive day. Today gold hits fresh 8 –day low at $1,327 marks. On the other side, Japanese yen fails to jump above 105.00 mark and trading around 104.25 levels.

Japan’s Nikkei N225 was trading 1.06% higher at 16,266.40 points in Tokyo.

South Korea’s Kospi was trading 0.36% higher at 1,998.17 points.

Shanghai composite index to open up 0.1 pct at 3,049.51 points and China's CSI300 index to open flat at 3,274.02 points.

Hong Kong’s Hang seng was trading 0.54% higher at 21,339.15 points.

Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was trading 0.49% higher at 5,379.80 points.