pink sheets

Noun

pink sheet (plural pink sheets)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pink, sheet.
2. An asset traded at an exchange under limited reporting requirements.
   • Hughes stock was not listed on a national exchange or quoted on the National Association Securities Dealers (NASD) automated quotation system (NASDAQ). Instead, the stock was listed in the “pink sheets.”¹² Individual investors rarely have access to the pink sheets and the information in the pink...1992 February 1, Joseph I. Goldstein, Paul D. Ramshaw, Sarah B. Ackerson, “An Investment Masquerade: A Descriptive Overview of Penny Stock Fraud and The Federal Securities Laws”, in The Business...

   Synonyms:

   over-the-counter, off-exchange

3. (US, administration) A memo within an authority containing obiter dicta or somehow avoided statements.
   • I have learned much during the last month concerning the "Familiant Laws" that were enacted in Bavaria in the Eighteenth Century and lasted until the year 1861. I received my information through the help of my sister, Claire Freedman, who found the information in the Leo Baeck Institute in New York...1977 June 20, Sanford Joseph Heilner, Introductory letter to Heilner letters and diary
   1. (US, administration) An ethics memo by the United States House Committee on Ethics.
      • House Ethics has now set a new standard for the Holiday Guidance pink sheet. Maybe next year in haiku?2013 December 9, Peter Overby, “Ethics Panel Hands Down Holiday Gift Rules — In Rhyme”, in NPR