Most Asian markets marginally higher, gold and silver up

All the major Asian indices were trading marginally higher on Thursday. Gold and silver were also trading higher in early hours of Asia. Gold was trading around $1,148 mark and silver was trading around $16.12 marks.

South Korea’s Kospi was trading 0.04 percent lower at 2,023.72 points.

Tokyo's Nikkei was trading 1.38 percent lower at 19,134.26 points.

Australia’s S&P ASX 200 was trading 0.06 percent higher 5,688 points.

Shanghai composite index to open down 0.2 pct at 3,095.84 points and China's CSI300 index to open down 0.2 pct at 3,297.04 points.

Taiwan stocks open down 0.3 pct at 9,172.39 points.

India’s NSE Nifty was trading around 0.13 percent higher at 8,045.70 points and BSE Sensex was trading at 0.14 percent higher at 26,246 points.