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Default Getting chunks of 200 items for stock query

I am using Office 2003 on Windows XP.

I have a list of +/- 2000 rows of stock symbols in a sheet. There is legacy
code in place that loops through these symbols and runs a couple different
web queries on each one against Yahoo.com to retrieve a variety of
information on each stock. As you might suspect this takes a long time to run.

1. I know that Yahoo can handle up to 200 stock symbols at a time, so I
thought one way to speed things up is to query 200 at a time instead of one
at a time. For this I need the best practice for getting successive chunks of
200 items at a time until all symbols are queried - using an array perhaps?
--- But then how do you neatly get successive chunks of 200 items from an
array...Unless someone can help me with #2 below:

2. Does anyone know of a good web site that I can tap using a web query to
get this many stock quotes (~2000 or more) at one time specifically or in
general other good sources of stock information related to pricing, volume,
% of company owned by institutionals, daily history, and the toughy: how long
a company has been publicly traded?

Sorry for the length, but I think it was needed for adequate explanation.
Thanks a lot in advance for this complex question. All help or suggestions
greatly appreciated.
 
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