I download financial data from a company's website. Some
of the data arrives as follows:

ABC102 120.123 14-01-2005 ABC Fund
ABC102 120.246 17-01-2005 ABC Fund

Because I use vlookup to find "ABC102", the duplicate
data rows foul up the lookup function, so I use a loop in
VBA to find the row with the earlier date (14-01-2005)
then delete that row. There are about 16000 row of data
with about 3000 rows to delete. I cannot sort by date
and eliminate all the 14-01-2005 rows because some are
valid. At first it took a minute or so to run, but
lately it has slowed down to about deleting a row per
second and it takes forever! Does anyone know why is it
now taking so long to delete the row and any ideas how to
speed it up? Is the worksheet running out of rows to
delete? I have a Dell P4 2.66 with 512 meg of RAM.

Thank-you!
Merlin Stewart