U.S. stocks turned lower on Wednesday morning as investors digest new earnings reports. As interest rates are expected to remain elevated for some time, subdued consumer demand could persist. Orders for durable goods rose 2.6% in March, up from revised 0.7% increase in February and in line with estimates. Excluding transportation, orders ticked up 0.2% as a 30.6% increase in nondefense aircraft and parts led the increase. Orders for motor vehicles and parts also saw an increase (+2.1%), while orders slipped for computers and related products (-3.9%) and primary metals (-0.5%). Shares of Tesla (TSLA) popped despite the company missing estimates for earnings and sales and logged a drop in production and vehicle deliveries in the latest quarter. Plans to reintroduce a more-affordable EV. The Dow was down 0.4%, the S&P 500 fell 0.4% and the Nasdaq lost 0.3%. Crude oil is trading above $82 per barrel and gold fell $5 to $2337 per ounce.

Dallas-based Texas Instruments is a vertically integrated producer of analog and embedded processing semiconductors. It serves end markets that include industrial, automotive, and communications infrastructure. Recent acquisitions and divestitures have increased the focus on nontraditional end markets while lessening the company's exposure to computing, mobile communications, and consumer electronics. The 2011 acquisition of National Semiconductor significantly increased its exposure to industrial, automotive, aerospace-defense, instrumentation, and other high-value-added and long-cycle markets.

Accenture is a leading global IT-services firm that provides consulting, strategy, and technology and operational services. These services run the gamut from aiding enterprises with digital transformation to procurement services to software system integration. The company provides its IT offerings to a variety of sectors, including communications, media and technology, financial services, health and public services, consumer products, and resources. Accenture employs just under 500,000 people throughout 200 cities in 51 countries.

Adobe provides content creation, document management, and digital marketing and advertising software and services to creative professionals and marketers for creating, managing, delivering, measuring, optimizing and engaging with compelling content multiple operating systems, devices and media. The company operates with three segments: digital media content creation, digital experience for marketing solutions, and publishing for legacy products (less than 5% of revenue).