Spun off from Kraft, Mondelez aims for growth in developing markets

In October 2012 Kraft Foods Inc. broke up into two separate companies, Kraft Foods Group (Nasdaq symbol KRFT) and Mondelez. Recently, we looked at Kraft (view the daily post here), whose operations are now focused on North America. Today we look at its spinoff, Mondelez, which gets most of its sales from overseas markets.

MONDELEZ INTERNATIONAL INC. (Nasdaq symbol MDLZ; www.mondelezinternational.com) makes cookies and biscuits (Oreo, Chips Ahoy, Ritz), chocolate bars (Cadbury, Toblerone) and gum and candy (Trident, Chiclets, Halls cough drops). It also makes beverages, including coffee (Tassimo) and …read more »

Every Wednesday, we publish our “Investor Toolkit” series on TSI Network. Whether you’re a beginning or experienced investor, these weekly updates are designed to give you specific investment advice. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental piece of investing strategy, and shows you how you can put it into practice right away.

Today’s tip: “You take a double loss if you lose money in your RRSP, which means that it is an expensive place to find out if you have a talent for stock trading.”

Registered Retirement Savings Plans …read more »

MOLSON COORS CANADA INC. (Toronto symbols TPX.A and TPX.B; www.molsoncoors.com) is one of the world’s leading brewers. Its main brands include Coors Light, Molson Canadian and Carling.

The company’s sales fell when it merged its U.S. brewing operations with those of rival SABMiller to form MillerCoors in 2008. Because it owns less than half of MillerCoors, accounting rules forced Molson Coors to stop including the sales from this business in its overall sales.

However, sales rebounded in 2012, reaching $3.9 billion. That’s partly due to the contribution of StarBev LP, which owns …read more »

Members of my Inner Circle can ask me and my investment team financial questions of any kind. Aside from questions on specific investments like stocks and exchange-traded funds, members ask us many other questions about how they should be investing their money.

One intriguing question came from a member who asked whether there is any advantage to investing in a prepaid funeral. I’d like to share this question, and our answer, with you.

Q: At 57 years old, it seems reasonable to me to lock in funeral costs at today’s …read more »

This Week’s Reports

Rising pet ownership has sparked big gains for this stock

Suncor set to prosper even with lower oil prices

Investor Toolkit: What you need to know about share splits—and consolidations

Two Canadian ETFs that profit from rising markets

Junior Canadian financial stock looks to build on share price rebound

As the markets keep moving, more opportunities are opening up with undervalued stocks that are due to surge. Now is the time to act. Pat McKeough’s conservative approach to aggressive investing uncovers stocks that have produced enormous gains even in volatile markets. That’s a …read more »

Pat McKeough responds to many requests for specific advice on stock tips and other questions on investment and the economy from the members of his Inner Circle. Every week, his comments and recommendations on the most intriguing questions of the past week go out to all Inner Circle members. And each week, we offer you one of the highlights from these Q&A sessions. While we reserve our buy-hold-sell advice for Inner Circle members, these excerpts provide a great deal of information and analysis on stocks we’ve covered for members of …read more »