CORRECTED-Friday UK stock market report
(Corrects weekly percentage fall in bullet point and text to 21 pct from 24 pct)
* FTSE 100 slumps 8.9 pct; down 21 pct for the week
* Financials plunge as bail-out, rate cuts fail to help
* Commodity shares drop on global recession fears
(For more on the financial crisis, click on [nCRISIS])
By Jon Hopkins
LONDON, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Britain's top share index ended 8.9 percent lower Friday contributing to a 21 percent slump for the week, the second biggest weekly fall ever, as investors ran scared from the spectre of a full global recession. The FTSE 100 .FTSE closed down 381.7 points at 3,932.1, its second biggest points loss ever, dropping below the 4,000 level for the first time in more than five years after its worst week since the crash of October 1987.
With another 90 billion pounds wiped off the FTSE 100's value Friday, there was just one gainer -- news and information provider Thomson Reuters (TRIL.L: Quote, Profile, Research), up a penny. Continued...















