FxWirePro: Asian markets in red, gold touches $1,271 mark

All the major Asian indices were trading on a lower note on Thursday. Gold was trading around $1,273 mark whilse silver was trading around $14.92 mark.

Tokyo's Nikkei was trading 0.70 pct lower at 22,112.85 points.

Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was trading 0.05 pct lower at 6,254.41 points.

Shanghai composite index to open down 0.1 pct at 3,261.07 points and China's CSI300 index to open down 0.1 pct at 4,085.11 points.

Hong Kong's hang seng index was trading 0.66 percent lower at 29,925.22 points.

South Korea’s Kospi was trading 1.31 percent lower at 2,216.58 points.

Taiwan stock was trading 0.20 percent lower at 10,976.61 points.