But historically they have been the best performers after a third rate cut by the Fed.
All of these problems are acted out with emotion and enthusiasm by a first rate cast.
In fact, he's transitioned effortlessly onto the intimate uptown cabaret stage with a witty, smart show, sprinkling song with jokes, backed by a first rate band: Brian Koonin on guitar, Richard Hammond on upright bass, Ray Grappone on drums, and Brian Mitchell on piano and accordion.
Mr. Trump responded by calling the comic a "low blow" by "a third-rate talent".
"It's one of the real black marks on the history of higher education that an entire industry that's supposedly populated by the best minds in the country — theoretical physicists, writers, critics — is bamboozled by a third-rate news magazine".
And so ends the great populist uprising of our time, fizzling out pathetically in the mud and the bigotry stirred up by a third-rate would-be caudillo named Donald J Trump.
And we're quiet for bad performers just as we are for legendary ones, for a mediocre performance by a third-rate orchestra or for a titanic interpretation by the Vienna Phil - just as we're islands of grumpiness and get-me-out-of-here-ness when we're on the tube.
Branagh and Dench are surrounded by a first-rate team.
You pick up a book by a first-rate author on an important topic.
Will a strong offense prove to be unstoppable even by a first-rate defense?
POLITICS in Italy these days looks rather like a performance by a second-rate opera.
