** Mobile operator Vodafone's shares up 1.7 pct,reversing course from earlier in the day, after Bloombergreports co has resumed talks with Liberty Global
** Asset swap talks, which were scrapped last year,restarted at the beginning of this year, Bloomberg reportedquoting 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, withsizeable 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)
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