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.

Visa Inc. operates the world's largest electronic payments network, providing processing services and payment product platforms, including credit, debit, prepaid and commercial payments, under the brands Visa, Visa Electron, Interlink and PLUS. Visa/PLUS is one of the world's largest ATM networks, offering cash access in local currency in more than 200 countries and territories.

Visa is the largest payment processor in the world. In fiscal 2022, it processed over $14 trillion in total volume. Visa operates in over 200 countries and processes transactions in over 160 currencies. Its systems are capable of processing over 65,000 transactions per second.

The United States economy is full of innovation. It has to be. Manufacturing industries that dominated the economy decades ago - textiles, televisions, even automobiles to a large degree - have moved overseas, where labor and materials costs are lower. Yet the U.S. economy, even during the pandemic and the current period of high inflation, has expanded to record levels. If U.S. corporations weren't innovating, creating new products (such as vaccines and AI) and services (such as Zoom calls) and moving into new markets, the domestic economy would not be growing, and capital would not be flooding into the country. The current high level of the U.S. dollar relative to currencies around the world attests to the confidence that global investors have in the durable and innovative U.S. economy.