Despite a poor start, we like Indian market: Julius Baer's Mark Matthews

"The Hindenburg-Adani Group affair will eventually become yesterday's news, and the market will focus on the fact that India does have strong earnings growth this year"

The Indian stock market does not normally get talked about a lot in the major financial centres. Now it is, unfortunately for all the wrong reasons, says MARK MATTHEWS, head of research for Asia, Julius Baer, in conversation with Puneet Wadhwa. Edited excerpts:

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