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October 24, 2018 at 10:56 AM
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TD Ameritrade clients will soon be able to buy shares, including volatile pot stocks like Tilray Inc., through Amazon.com Inc.’s smart speaker.
“We are allowing trading through Amazon’s Alexa,” Tim Hockey, chief executive officer of the U.S. discount broker, said in a BNN Bloomberg television interview Wednesday. “You can make a trade by speaking to your smart speaker — that’s an industry first and would have been unheard of a couple years ago.”
TD Ameritrade Holding Corp., the Omaha-based firm that’s 41 percent owned by Toronto-Dominion Bank, has seen a surge of interest in the pot industry from clients, according to Hockey.
