Bernard Dahdah is responsible for precious metals research at Natixis and has been covering the gold, silver platinum and palladium markets for four years.  After various roles at Merrill Lynch and HSBC, Bernard pursued his studies at the Cass business school in London where he wrote a dissertation on forecasting errors in the commodities and FX markets.  Bernard joined the Natixis commodities research team, headed by Nic Brown, as a precious metals analyst in 2009.