FTSE seen opening down

LONDON (Reuters) - The FTSE 100 index is seen opening down 17 to 23 points on Friday, financial bookmakers said, having ended the previous session down 147.9 points, or 2.6 percent, at 5,518.2.

European shares are seen extending their previous session's losses after U.S. stocks plunged on Thursday. The Dow shed about 360 points to hit a 21-month low as oil set a record peak and Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs urged investors to sell bank and automaker shares, escalating concern about the outlook for profits.

Asian stocks also dropped on Friday, with Japan's Nikkei slipping about 2 percent.

On the economic front, British first-quarter GDP and British current account data for the first-quarter are both due at 0830 GMT. Investors will also eye U.S. core PCE data for May, due at 1230 GMT, and Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment data for June, due at 1355 GMT.

* Asia stocks drop on Wall St plunge, oil surge

* U.S. stocks drop 3 percent on profit jitters

* Gold steady near 1-month high on record oil

* Dollar near lows vs euro on econ, credit worries

* TREASURIES-Dip in Asia on profit-taking

* Oil eases from record high above $140

UK stocks to watch on Friday are:

BRADFORD & BINGLEY

Entrepreneur Clive Cowdery said he has the backing of a quarter of shareholders in Bradford & Bingley for his proposed 400 million pound investment plan for the bank.

BARCLAYS

Several of London's largest hedge funds are backing Barclays' 4.5 billion pound capital increase, underscoring the complex roles they are playing in the recapitalisation of the banking sector, the Financial Times reported.

HBOS

The country's biggest mortgage lender has won shareholder support for its 4 billion pound rights issue.

EXPRO

Traders beat the High Court to a final verdict on Expro International on Thursday as disgruntled investors failed to prevent a judge from approving a 1.8 billion pounds sale of the oil services group to a consortium led by Candover, the private equity group, the Financial Times said.

BRITISH AIRWAYS

Unite, Britain's biggest union, has written to the chief executive of British Airways to demand a meeting after the airline began a far-reaching review of its costs, the Times reported.

BP

BP's 265,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) Los Angeles-market refinery in Carson, California, filed two notices of unplanned flaring at the refinery on Thursday afternoon.

Also, according to BP's Russian partners in the TNK-BP joint venture, a dispute over an oil project in Iraq was the "final straw" that triggered a public falling out over control of the company, the Times reported.

HSBC

HSBC, the bank that offered a "rescue" mortgage deal to help homeowners facing surging repayments, is hitting the same borrowers who take up the deal with arrangement fees of up to 9,999 pounds, the Times reported.

TESCO <TSCO.L

The company is due to hold its AGM.

MOSS BROS

Moss Bros' Chief Executive Phillip Mountford faced hostile questioning from shareholders at the menswear retailer's annual meeting on Wednesday, the Financial Times reported. The paper said he was told to put "clear water" between the company and Baugur, the Icelandic investment group that cancelled a planned 40 million pound takeover bid for Moss Bros.

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(Reporting by Rebekah Curtis)

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