Kioxia Shares Fall as Margin Debt Hits Record High
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Kioxia is a Japanese company. It makes computer chips. Its share price has fallen a lot.
One big reason is margin debt. This is money that people borrow to buy shares. Kioxia has 920 billion yen of this debt. This is the biggest amount of any company on the market.
Many people bought Kioxia shares with borrowed money. Now they need to sell. But trading is slow. So it will take time to fix this problem.
There is also bad news from the U.S. Technology shares there have fallen. One company called Coreweave saw a big drop. This made people worried about Kioxia too.
There is another problem. Chinese companies now make more computer memory chips. This is strong competition for Kioxia.
In four months, Kioxia's market value has become one third smaller. This shows the company's big trouble.
Vocabulary15 words
- margin debt
- money you borrow to buy shares
- memory
- a part of a computer that stores information
- competition
- when companies try to win against each other
- market value
- how much a company is worth
- share price
- the cost of one part of a company
- trading
- buying and selling
- chip
- a small part inside a computer
- borrowed money
- money you take and must pay back
- company
- a business
- worried
- feeling afraid something bad will happen
- fall
- go down
- biggest
- the largest of all
- problem
- something difficult
- technology
- machines and computers
- drop
- a fast fall
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1. Making computer chips 2. It is Kioxia's margin debt, the biggest of any stock 3. True
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Kioxia is a Japanese company. It makes computer _____. Its share price has fallen a lot.
One big reason is margin debt. This is money that people _____ to buy shares. Kioxia has 920 billion yen of this debt. This is the biggest amount of any company on the _____.
Many people bought Kioxia shares with borrowed money. Now they need to _____. But trading is slow. So it will take time to fix this problem.
There is also bad news from the U.S. Technology shares there have fallen. One company called Coreweave saw a big _____. This made people worried about Kioxia too.
There is another problem. Chinese companies now make more computer memory chips. This is strong _____ for Kioxia.
In four months, Kioxia's market value has become one third _____. This shows the company's big trouble.
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