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Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/MU#NASDAQ">MU</a>) is having a brutal April &#8211; and not just on the charts. <a href="https://www.benzinga.com/topic/semiconductors">The chipmaker's stock</a> has tanked over 22% in the past five trading days.
As investors hoped for a reprieve, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/micron-impose-tariff-related-surcharge-some-products-april-9-sources-say-2025-04-08/">dropped</a> a fresh blow: Micron is slapping a tariff-related surcharge on some of its products, effective April 9.
<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Tariffs Trigger Trouble</h2>
Micron, which manufactures much of its portfolio in Asia &#8211; including China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Japan and Singapore &#8211; has informed U.S. customers that it will pass on costs from the latest round of tariffs announced by President Donald Trump. While semiconductors were excluded, the tariffs apply to memory modules and solid-state drives, critical components for laptops, data centers and other tech infrastructure.
Reuters reports that Micron communicated the decision via a letter, explaining that customers will now face a surcharge. This follows similar messaging from its March 21 earnings call, where executives said they intended to pass on tariff-related costs. It also comes on the heels of a separate price increase due to "un-forecasted demand."
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Micron Stock&#8217;s Bearish Breakdown</h2>
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The news couldn't have come at a worse time for Micron's technical setup. Micron stock, at $71.25 is underwater relative to every major moving average. It's well below its eight, 20, 50, and 200-day simple moving averages (SMAs), all of which flag a bearish outlook. The eight-day SMA is at $78.92, the 50-day sits at $92.40, and the 200-day is up to $101.24.
Meanwhile, the Moving Average Convergence Divergence indicator is flashing red at a negative 6.29, and the Relative Strength Index has sunk to 33.35, pushing Micron closer to oversold territory.
<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Micron Stock Investors On Edge</h2>
With a falling knife for a chart and macroeconomic clouds gathering, investors are left in wait-and-watch mode. Micron's no-nonsense approach &#8211; telling customers to absorb the cost or go without &#8211; may protect margins in the short run, but it adds another layer of uncertainty for a stock already in a technical tailspin.
If there's a recovery coming, it's not on the radar just yet.
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<th>Name</th>
<th align="right">Price</th>
<th align="right">Change ($)</th>
<th align="right">Change (%)</th>
<th>Volume</th>
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<td>(NYSE:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/XLF#NYSE">XLF</a>)</td>
<td>SPDR Select Sector Fund - Financial</td>
<td align="right">45.46</td>
<td align="right">1.37</td>
<td align="right">3.10</td>
<td>971.3K</td>
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<td>(NYSE:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/XLK#NYSE">XLK</a>)</td>
<td>SPDR Select Sector Fund - Technology</td>
<td align="right">188.98</td>
<td align="right">5.52</td>
<td align="right">3.00</td>
<td>72.2K</td>
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<td>(NYSE:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/XLY#NYSE">XLY</a>)</td>
<td>SPDR Select Sector Fund - Consumer Discretionary</td>
<td align="right">185.99</td>
<td align="right">5.36</td>
<td align="right">2.96</td>
<td>11.0K</td>
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<td>(NYSE:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/XLV#NYSE">XLV</a>)</td>
<td>SPDR Select Sector Fund - Health Care</td>
<td align="right">138.40</td>
<td align="right">3.93</td>
<td align="right">2.92</td>
<td>42.3K</td>
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<td>(NYSE:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/XLE#NYSE">XLE</a>)</td>
<td>SPDR Select Sector Fund - Energy Select Sector</td>
<td align="right">80.38</td>
<td align="right">2.13</td>
<td align="right">2.72</td>
<td>111.4K</td>
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<td>(NYSE:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/XLC#NYSE">XLC</a>)</td>
<td>The Communication Services Select Sector SPDR Fund</td>
<td align="right">89.66</td>
<td align="right">2.31</td>
<td align="right">2.64</td>
<td>2.9K</td>
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<td>(NYSE:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/XLI#NYSE">XLI</a>)</td>
<td>SPDR Select Sector Fund - Industrial</td>
<td align="right">120.40</td>
<td align="right">3.01</td>
<td align="right">2.56</td>
<td>11.1K</td>
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<td>(NYSE:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/XLB#NYSE">XLB</a>)</td>
<td>Materials Select Sector SPDR</td>
<td align="right">78.37</td>
<td align="right">1.74</td>
<td align="right">2.27</td>
<td>2.7K</td>
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<td>(NYSE:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/XLU#NYSE">XLU</a>)</td>
<td>SPDR Select Sector Fund - Utilities</td>
<td align="right">74.61</td>
<td align="right">1.22</td>
<td align="right">1.66</td>
<td>25.0K</td>
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<td>(NYSE:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/XLRE#NYSE">XLRE</a>)</td>
<td>Real Estate Select Sector SPDR Fund (The)</td>
<td align="right">38.60</td>
<td align="right">0.58</td>
<td align="right">1.52</td>
<td>1.4K</td>
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<td>(NYSE:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/XLP#NYSE">XLP</a>)</td>
<td>SPDR Select Sector Fund - Consumer Staples</td>
<td align="right">78.41</td>
<td align="right">0.86</td>
<td align="right">1.10</td>
<td>13.3K</td>
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NCI presentation to highlight IL-12 fused antibody drug conjugate during poster presentation
PRINCETON, N.J., April 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PDS Biotechnology Corporation (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/PDSB#NASDAQ">PDSB</a>) ("PDS Biotech" or the "Company"), a late-stage immunotherapy company focused on transforming how the immune system targets and kills cancers, today announced that an abstract submitted by the National Cancer Institute ("NCI") reporting clinical data on PDS01ADC, the Company's IL-12 fused antibody drug conjugate, has been accepted for presentation at the American Association for Cancer Research ("AACR") Annual Meeting 2025, taking place April 25-30, 2025, in Chicago, Illinois.
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Title: Alterations in peripheral T stem-like memory cells in patients with advanced solid tumors treated with tumor-targeting IL-12 therapy Abstract: 5800 / 9 Session Type: Poster Session Session Title: PO.CL06.10 - Immune Response to Therapies Date and Time: April 29, 2025, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT Presenter: Meghali Goswami, Postdoctoral Fellow, The National Institutes of Health

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The electric scooter maker's China unit sales rose 66% in the first quarter, while its global sales grew by just 6% on tariff headwinds
<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Key Takeaways:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Niu Technologies said its China e-scooter unit sales rose 66% in the first quarter, boosted by a government program to stimulate consumer spending</li>
<li>The company's international unit sales growth slowed to just 6% in the first quarter, as it faced tariff headwinds in the U.S. market</li>
</ul>
Its name means "bull" in Chinese, and these days electric scooter maker&nbsp;Niu Technologies&nbsp;(NIU.US) is living up to that name, charging into some major headwinds overseas as a result of protective U.S. tariffs. But the company is also getting some nice tailwinds in its home China market from a government program aimed at boosting consumer spending.
Both of those elements were at the forefront of a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/04/04/3055750/0/en/Niu-Technologies-Provides-First-Quarter-2025-Sales-Volume-Update.html">first-quarter update</a>&nbsp;from Niu last Friday, in which it said its China sales charged ahead by 66% in the three-month period, even as its international sales nearly ground to a halt with just a 6% rise. We'll dissect both of these elements shortly, but first we'll review the bigger picture for this company.
Niu has been a slightly lost bull these past few years, and is trying to find its way back to growth and profitability after slipping into the red and revenue contraction in 2022.
It has spent much of the last three years working on that by focusing on the premium end of its home China market that accounts for more than 85% of its sales and is especially competitive at the lower end of the market. Overseas the company has been more focused on building out its sales network by signing up more dealers and doing distribution deals with big-name retailers like Walmart in the U.S. and MediaMarkt in Germany.
As a result of those efforts, the company returned to revenue growth last year, as its annual revenue rose 24% to 3.29 billion yuan ($451 million). It is still losing money, though its loss narrowed in last year's fourth quarter to 72.5 million yuan from 130 million yuan a year earlier. One of the two analysts polled by Yahoo Finance expects the company to return to profitability this year, while the other expects it to keep losing money.
The company's return to the black is being hampered by falling gross margins as it grapples with stiff competition and also relies heavily on low-margin kick-scooters for a big part of its international business. Its gross margin was moving in the wrong direction last year, falling to 15.2% from 21.5% in 2023, including an even larger plunge to just 12.4% in the fourth quarter from 19.0% a year earlier.
Its early turnaround story has won mostly praise from the investment community, with three of four analysts polled by Yahoo Finance rating the company a "buy," while the fourth rates it a "hold." The company currently trades at a price-to-sales (P/S) ratio of just 0.56. But that's ahead of most of its peers, including domestic rivals&nbsp;Luyuan&nbsp;(2451.HK) and&nbsp;Ninebot&nbsp;(689009.SH), which trade at even lower ratios of 0.52 and 0.31, respectively, and Vespa maker&nbsp;Piaggio&nbsp;(PIA.MI), which trades at just 0.38.
That shows this group is generally underappreciated by investors, perhaps due to the sector's relatively low barriers to entry that have resulted in intense competition and low profit margins.
<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Trade-in dividend</h4>
With that background in mind, we'll return to the company's latest business update and why it looks generally positive for Niu's core China business but is less upbeat for its global ambitions.
The company's China scooter sales rose 66% year-on-year to 183,065 units in the first quarter, which is typically a slower period due to the Lunar New Year holiday. That strong growth extends a streak dating back to the fourth quarter of last year, when Niu's unit sales rose by a similar 65.1% year-on-year. Before that, the company's China unit sales posted much slower growth of 12.4% in the third quarter and 16.2% in the second.
Niu patted itself on the back by attributing the strong first-quarter growth to the "successful execution of our product and channel strategies." But the bigger reason behind the strong gains is more likely related to one of China's main programs to boost spending in the current sluggish consumer environment. That program offers government subsidies for consumers when they trade in various used products for new ones.
Launched last year, the program initially focused on big-ticket items like home appliances. But it has gradually moved down the food chain with expansion into other categories, including e-scooters starting last September. Following that expansion, China's Commerce Ministry reported that nearly 900,000 new e-bikes and e-scooters were purchased through the trade-in program in December.
Niu seems to think this boost will continue throughout 2025, forecasting last month that its overall sales volume this year would rise between 40% and 70% to between 1.3 million and 1.7 million units.
While things looked strong at home for the company in the first quarter, the opposite was true for Niu's international segment, whose first-quarter unit sales rose just 6% year-on-year to 20,248 units for the period. That marked a sharp slowdown from 2024, when international unit sales rose by 45% or more every quarter.
The company didn't comment on the slowdown in its latest announcement. But it was quite vocal in its latest earnings call last month on the effects of a new 25% tariff imposed by the U.S. last September on Chinese imports by the administration of former President Joe Biden. To get around that, the company set up a manufacturing facility in Southeast Asia that started producing in the second half of last year.
But that workaround has obviously become obsolete under the latest tariffs announced last week by resident Donald Trump, which apply not only to China but to nearly every country that conducts significant trade with the U.S. Niu doesn't say how much of its overseas business goes to the U.S., but it has previously named the country, along with Germany, Italy and France, as its major overseas markets. It has also named U.S. retailing giants Walmart and Best Buy as two of its important overseas partners.
All things considered, 2025 is shaping up as a relatively strong year for Niu due to its solid prospects in China, despite the cloudy outlook overseas. Investors seem to like that story, with Niu's stock up 70% so far this year, even after a selloff that saw it drop 28% over the last five days during the global market rout after Trump's new tariff announcement last week.

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Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/NVDA#NASDAQ">NVDA</a>) has become the ultimate AI bellwether—but that status is <a href="https://www.benzinga.com/topic/artificial-intelligence">coming under pressure</a>. 
After a blistering multi-year run, shares are now down nearly 29% year to date and 8.7% over the past month. Mounting concerns around capital expenditures, valuation, and geopolitical risks create uncertainty for <a href="https://www.benzinga.com/quote/nvda/news">Nvidia stock investors</a>.
"Regarding Nvidia, it is certainly a bellwether within the semiconductor space and AI revolution," said a Direxion&#8217;s Managing Director Ed Egilinsky said in an exclusive interview with Benzinga.
"However, with the Deepseek news last month, and the negative impact it can have on overall capex spending, has led many to be concerned whether its current growth rate is sustainable."
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Nvidia Stock Technicals Turns Bearish</h2>
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That sustainability question is colliding with bearish technicals. Nvidia stock is now trading below all key short-term and long-term simple moving averages (SMAs) — an unambiguous &#8216;Bearish&#8217; signal from a technical standpoint:
<ul>
<li>Eight-day SMA: $104.15</li>
<li>20-day SMA: $112.11</li>
<li>50-day SMA: $120.05</li>
<li>200-day SMA: $126.73</li>
<li>Nvidia stock price: $100.85</li>
</ul>
The MACD (moving average convergence/divergence) indicator is a negative 5.90 and the RSI (relative strength index) has dropped to 37.48, indicating that bearish momentum is building, though some traders may soon start eyeing a rebound play on oversold conditions.
"In addition, the increasing competitive landscape combined with the overhang of possible further tariff and regulatory restrictions on U.S. chipmakers also could weigh on the stock," Ed added.
<h2 class="wp-block-heading">From Market Darling To Valuation Puzzle</h2>
While bulls still argue Nvidia's long-term dominance in AI makes any dip a buying opportunity, traders are split. For those trying to ride either direction of this volatility, Direxion offers tools for both camps.
"For playing either side of the NVDA trade, one can look to either our Direxion Daily NVDA Bull 2X Shares (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/NVDU#NASDAQ">NVDU</a>) or the Direxion Daily NVDA Bear 1X Shares (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/stock/NVDD#NASDAQ">NVDD</a>)."
Whether this is a pause before the next leg higher or a sign of deeper correction, Nvidia's once one-way momentum trade now faces real complications.
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Teddy Pornprinya, co-founder and Chief Business Officer of Plume Network, believes the most immediate future of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) lies in traditional financial instruments like treasuries and private credit—while more exotic or illiquid assets may be overhyped or too early for mass adoption.
"Top of the funnel is something super liquid and super safe," Pornprinya said in an interview with Benzinga. "So a lot of people go to different products that are like treasury-type based. Apollo's private credit fund is also a pretty safe asset that there&#8217;s been a lot of demand for."
Plume, a Layer 1 blockchain purpose-built for RWAs, has become a key infrastructure player in the space by combining tokenization with DeFi tooling, what the team calls "RWA-Fi." 
The platform allows users to buy tokenized assets, collateralize them in lending protocols, or swap them in automated market makers (AMMs), enhancing their utility far beyond passive ownership.
"We're making a lot more liquidity and utility available to what used to be static assets," he said. "The idea is that people can park their money into our RWAs, make real yield, maybe get some Plume incentives on top, and when they're done, go back into the broader DeFi ecosystem."
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Overhyped: Real Estate And Illiquid Exotic Assets</h3>
While there&#8217;s no shortage of excitement around tokenizing everything from diamonds to camels, Pornprinya cautioned that some assets are better left off-chain for now.
"There's this misconception where if you tokenize everything in the world, it's actually better on-chain. But some assets are better off in the real world," he said.
Citing an example, he said people think if real estate is brought on-chain there's more liquidity, but the truth is, if you&#8217;re dealing with LPs who want quicker exits, long lock-up real estate isn&#8217;t the best fit for a crypto-native environment.
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Infrastructure And Distribution Are The Bottlenecks</h3>
Pornprinya also emphasized that tokenization isn't just about turning an asset into an on-chain wrapper. 
It's about ecosystem enablement, compliance, and access to end users. 
Plume is using a "modular compliance architecture" that supports KYC, AML, and regional licensing by integrating with partners, allowing projects to scale without being bogged down by regulatory overhead.
"Some huge asset managers we've spoken to are ready to come on-chain, but their biggest issue is distribution," he said. "How do you get more people to buy your product? That's where Plume comes in. All of our resources are dedicated to building and distributing RWA products globally."
The platform currently hosts over 200 projects ranging from tokenized solar farms and GPUs to more unconventional assets. 
But Pornprinya reiterated that user trust and asset quality are paramount. "We want to bring on quality assets that users want to use. These assets have to meet a certain criteria to flow through the RWA-Fi ecosystem."
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Plume Eyes A Global RWA Marketplace</h3>
With institutional support from Apollo and Binance Labs, Plume is eyeing rapid global expansion. 
The platform is forming partnerships in Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the UAE. 
Looking ahead, the company is preparing for its mainnet launch in Q2 2025 and building cross-chain infrastructure in partnership with LayerZero through a new protocol called Skylink, which will allow RWA yields to stream across ecosystems like Solana.
Asked about Plume's broader vision, Pornprinya summed it up simply: "We want to be the hub for everything RWA-related. And when people ask what the ideal RWA marketplace looks like—it's Plume."
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