Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• RED FLAG - A visual sign or indication of a defect. Something that warns a reasonably observant person ...
  
  
• RED HERRING - When a security is offered to the public for the first time, the underwriter prepares a p...
  
  
• RED HERRING PROSPECTUS - Investment/finance industry jargon for a preliminary prospectus issued to gaug...
  
  
• RED LINING - Term used to describe the illegal practice of refusing to lend to borrowers located in a d...
  
  
• RED-LINING - Illegal discrimination in making loans, insurance coverage, or other financial services av...
  
  
• RED-WELLS - when legal records are set up in file folders and file pockets called "red-wells." Clients ...
  
  
• REDACTED - the condition of a document that has been edited to remove sensitive or confidential informa...
  
  
• REDEEM - To bring mortgage payments up-to-date after the lender has begun default proceedings. Once a b...
  
  
• REDEEMABLE - Eligible for redemption under the terms of an indenture.
  
  
• REDEEMABLE PREFERRED - preferred stock that can be redeemed by the owner (usually a venture capital inv...