ASX 200 dips, Sydney Airport falls, AGL rises on Friday 19 March 2021

The S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) went down by 0.6% today to 6,708 points.

Here are some of the main highlights from the ASX today after a sizeable tech selloff in the US share market overnight:

Sydney Airport Holdings Pty Ltd (ASX: SYD)

Sydney Airport announced its monthly passenger update for February 2021. It said that total passengers were down 79.8% year on year to 623,000. This reflected a 70% decline of domestic passengers to 596,000 whilst international passengers were down 97.5% to 27,000.

In the 2021 year to date, total passengers were down 87.8% to 853,000.

The ASX 200 business said that the recovery in domestic passenger traffic from January was driven by unrestricted travel between all states and territories from late…