US stocks slid on Wednesday as investors fielded the latest wave of earnings in a busy day highlighted by Tesla (TSLA) and IBM (IBM). The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) fell near 1%, or over 400 points, while the S&P 500 (^GSPC) lost around 1.2%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) led losses, down around 1.8%. Wall Street, buoyed by a strong start to third quarter earnings thus far, reassessed as the first wave of megacap tech earnings flooded in. Tesla’s quarterly report is due after the bell ...