red herring definition

red herring

General: Irrelevant issue or point, raised often as a distraction.

Securities: Popular term for preliminary official statement.

red herring is in the Negotiating & Conflict Resolution and Securities & Futures Trading subjects.

red herring appears in the definitions of the following terms: prospectus and preliminary official statement (POS)

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