The New York Times – Barclays shareholders overwhelmingly approved the bank’s sale of asset manager Barclays Global Investors to BlackRock for about $14 billion (8.3 billion pounds) on Thursday, but staff staged a protest against pension changes.Barclays chairman Marcus Agius told shareholders the bank was in the final days of consultation about controversial changes to its pension plan for UK staff, and could make changes to alleviate concerns and head off the threat of a strike.
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