The All Share Price Index closed at 20,142.33 on Friday, down 124.82 points or 0.62%, ending a three-session run of gains. The index gave back part of Thursday’s 296.93-point advance but stayed above the 20,000 mark it had regained a day earlier.

The more liquid S&P SL20 fell 23.28 points, or 0.40%, to 5,750.64, EconomyNext reported from Colombo Stock Exchange data. Hiru News reported the same 124.82-point fall and the same closing level.

Turnover was Rs 958.58 million — well below Thursday’s Rs 2.27 billion. The Banks industry group again led, at Rs 185 million. Commercial Bank recorded a crossing of Rs 50.00 million, according to Dewangi De Silva, Assistant Manager for Research at NDB Securities.

Contributors

EconomyNext lists positive contributors to the index — a market-capitalisation weighting, not a ranking by percentage gain — as Union Assurance (up 4.08% to Rs 68.90), Distilleries Company of Sri Lanka (up 1.10% to Rs 55.10), Ceylon Tobacco Company (up 0.59% to Rs 1,795.00) and John Keells Holdings (up 0.55% to Rs 18.20).

Top negative contributors were Ambeon Holdings (down 10.72% to Rs 30.80), LOLC Holdings (down 3.66% to Rs 375.25), Royal Ceramics Lanka (down 2.98% to Rs 42.30), Hatton National Bank (down 1.31% to Rs 377.75) and Dialog Axiata (down 0.68% to Rs 44.00).

The arithmetic, and a figure it settles

Friday’s fall reconciles exactly against this desk’s record of Thursday’s close: 20,267.15 − 124.82 = 20,142.33, to the cent.

The S&P SL20 arithmetic resolves a discrepancy this desk could not settle on Thursday, when EconomyNext put that index at 5,764.20 and the Daily Mirror at 5,773.92 — both internally consistent, so neither could be preferred. Friday’s close of 5,750.64 after a 23.28-point fall implies a prior close of 5,773.92, matching the Daily Mirror’s figure exactly and not EconomyNext’s. EconomyNext’s own next-day filing therefore corrects its own prior-session number. This desk’s Thursday report carried the 5,764.20 figure and has been annotated.

Not reported

Neither filing gives the number of trades, the advance-decline breadth, or foreign participation for the session, and neither offers a reason for the pullback.

Corroborated by two verified newsrooms. EconomyNext alone carries the S&P SL20, the contributor lists, the turnover breakdown and the broker comment.