The global situation is volatile, and these three American shares will be worthy of pursuing a defensive model?

Moreover, with the exception of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Russian-Turkish conflict, global inflation has remained high, which has led to a rising sense of risk avoidance among investors. In the past four weeks, utilities have been the second-best performer, while essential consumer panels have fallen by 3.23%, and non-essential consumer panels by 5.54%.

Although Dario, the founder of the bridge, has repeatedly claimed this year that “cash is garbage,” this has not prevented the dollar from rising, and so far this year, no fixed-income asset has performed more than the dollar. To date, cash has prevailed in 2023. Given the recent geopolitical risks in the Middle East, the crude-oil market has become the focus of attention. Although Israel is not the main producer of crude oil, the intensification of the conflict in the region is likely to affect crude-oil production in the Middle East, with Iran likely to be the most affected country.

Marathon crude oil is an oil and gas refiner, operating with its subsidiaries as an integrated downstream energy company. Recently, the Marathon crude oil increased its quarterly dividends by 10%, and announced an additional $5 billion in stock buy-back, providing investors with a steady income to hedge inflation and potential portfolio losses, which are crucial to the defensive nature of the unit.

Over the past 90 days, 16 Wall Street analysts have revised their expectations for the company, without the analysts. For valuations, the cumulative 32% increase in Marathon crude oil so far this year, with a forward-market surplus of 6.36 times -- 38%, indicates that its valuation is relatively undervalued. It lags between PEG (the relative profit-growth ratio of the market rate) and its industry counterparts by 58%. Given current prices, rising momentum, and profit performance over the past few quarters, the value of Marathon crude oil has been revised 13 times over the last three months and zero times down.