Barclays shareholders OK BGI sale to BlackRock
August 06, 2009 at 14:03 PM EDT
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Barclays PLC shareholders Thursday agreed to the $13 billion sale of the bank's Barclays Global Investors unit to BlackRock Inc. making BlackRock the world's biggest money manager and giving several Barclays executives multi-million dollar payoffs.
