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BUZZ-Vodafone: Co resumes talks with Liberty Global - Bloomberg

** Mobile operator Vodafone's shares up 1.7 pct, reversing course from earlier in the day, after Bloomberg reports co has resumed talks with Liberty Global (NasdaqGS: LBTYA - news)

** Asset swap talks, which were scrapped last year, restarted at the beginning of this year, Bloomberg reported quoting sources (http://bloom.bg/1POTySM)

** Co now second-largest gainer on the FTSE 100 after earlier being down 0.5 pct

** Four-fifths of co's 30-day avg vols gone through, with sizeable spike in volumes after news

** Liberty Global's stock was marginally up premarket

** Neither company immediately available to comment (venkateshasoumithri.mamidipudi.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net, paul.sandle.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)