Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas and HypoVereinsbank offered European fixed-income investors supply from a rare sector with a €1bn ($1.1bn) debut bond for the European Aeronautic Defence & Space Company (EADS), the second-largest aerospace company in the world.

EADS, the tri-national company that owns Airbus and was created in 2000 by the merger of Germany's DaimlerChrysler Aerospace, Aerospatiale Matra of France and CASA, the Spanish company, launched the seven-year bond on Thursday following a three-day pan-European roadshow last week.