Title: Lebanon: Dollar Bond Yields Surge Amid Signs of Intensifying Liquidity Crisis

The yield on Lebanon's dollar bonds rose in trading on Thursday, May 27, after the Central Bank of Lebanon announced that it could no longer continue importing subsidized medical supplies without impacting the mandatory reserves of banks, indicating a clear intensification of the liquidity crisis in a country already suffering from significant economic difficulties. Data from Bondevalue, a platform specialized in tracking the performance of fixed income instruments, showed that the yield on Lebanon's bonds maturing in March 2037 increased by about 36 basis points to 45%. Meanwhile, the yield on dollar bonds maturing in March 2027 jumped by about 34 basis points to 60.7%. Yields on Lebanese bonds maturing in 2028 rose by about 17 basis points to 51%.